Tension coiled in his shoulders for a few long seconds, only easing away when he'd processed what she'd asked, and that it wasn't what he'd been expecting. Except, that was still difficult to answer, because there were things he couldn't just admit to, things he couldn't talk about freely. The last time he'd put his trust into someone...well, that hadn't been going too well for him.

He scrunched his face for a moment, mostly in thought about how he'd ended up here, but also because he was trying to figure out how much was safe to say. He wouldn't put it entirely outside the realm of possibility for him to have been whisked off to Ohio while being alive and physically fine.

"There was a portal or some shit like that, I think. Right before the cave." It'd happened fast though, and he still felt like he had some sort of emotional whiplash while trying to remember what, exactly, had happened. Had he or hadn't he woken up with the dragon? Had he left the dream before finding himself in the cave? It sort of blurred together. "I've seen some weird fucking shit though, so I can't really rule out 'magical portals' as a legit thing."