Ah, that would explain that…Aura. Like she knows what she’s doing and how much she knows about this place. The Doctor hummed and nodded, validating her in his head.
“Ah, I’m the Doctor! Just…’Doctor’ is fine.” he gave a warm smile at Maki,
“Madman with a box and whatnot. Don’t ask about my real name, humans won’t understand it.” He decided against shaking Maki’s hand; he’s trying to be less touchy feely with strangers (it turns out, it wasn’t a good idea to randomly shake people’s hands.)
“Nice to meet you, Maki! Glad I met you, it’s nice to meet a person who’s been here a bit longer than me. Makes…coming here a bit easier, I suppose.” Sure, he met people while coming here but they seem to be in a similar boat as him. Or at least they stayed here a little bit longer than him.
“Again, sorry. Bit out of my depth here; new world, new place but nothing like any other that I’ve been in. And I’ve been to many worlds and planets, so to speak. Also…I feel a bit funny. Dunno why though…Feels like I’m blocked off from something but I don’t know what. So strange…”
While she doesn’t know necessarily everything about this place, at least she knows what she’s doing around here. And she does know from than him so that’s something at least.
Well that’s... weird, she has to say. Not like she can really say anything given how weird this place is but, it’s still weird. At least she has a name of sorts to call him by, so that’s something. It’s a bit weird to hear her first name so casually since not a lot of people called her by it back at the academy and before that well... it had been a long time since anyone’s called her by it.
“...Nice to meet you too.” Her expression is still carefully neutral but it’s a bit softer than it was before. She’s not good at the whole trying to help people thing and all that but... she’s trying her best. It’s better than nothing after all. And well, she knows first hand how it can feel to be thrown into a new place without anyone you know beside you.
She’s been in that boat before.
“It’s fine, this place is a lot to take in after all.” From a city to this country is a lot for her to have dealt with personally but it’s not like he needs to know that. An eyebrow is raised at that statement, thought she’s not really sure what to say. She’s just human after all. “Could be something about this place. I don’t really know. I’m just a normal high school student after all.” Sure if normal means that she’s an assassin and went through a killing game but he doesn’t need to know about that.