[It was always kind of nice to have people that talked too much. At least, if they talked too much about themselves, you got an idea of their whole situation without even having to chime in. There was a part of him that had started keeping track of those little things about people.]

[Which, well, it wasn't very hero-like but sometimes a person just had to be manipulated. And there wasn't any harm in practicing it if he never had to use it. So, it sounded like she was going through bad times and now there was an upswing... In that situation people either got extremely optimistic or extremely distrusting of it.]

[And in this person's case, they also seemed pretty emotional about just about anything.]

Something about space aliens. [he chimes in helpfully.]

Unless you wanted to go back to whoever came up with these things. They're definitely not Japanese. [They were, at least, easy to carry. Sort of.]