[He shakes his head, forgetting that this isn't a video call on his end.]

Sucking out corruption's not gonna stop that. I've got these dumb splodey powers, y'see…

[Has he told her that before? Or shown her? He doesn't often advertise it because it's not something he likes about himself. Well, she knows now, kinda. And he trailed off, but comes back in when she mentions her brothers and the ocean being peaceful.]

…Woah, there's like, a whooole lot to unpack there. [he takes a moment to focus very hard and digest what she said. Then picks one point to start with first, hopefully he remembers to circle back to the rest.] I don't 'member the ocean, how come you do?