[Seventy four years sounds like eternity when you're twenty-two, so give him a moment.]

Right. Observing in their natural habitat and all. [Hm.] Hope you're ready to get really close really fast. There aren't many places for us to go. We're sort of stuck together.

[...let's try easy mode.] Have you spoken to Katy a lot yet? Heard you guys were roommates.