[He nods back, feeling a little like a parrot as he thinks this new information over carefully. And he has more questions, lots of them. But he has his own secrets too, and knows what it is to want to keep them.]

...you don't have to tell me, if you don't want to.

[A half grin, more habit than anything.] Probably shouldn't be throwing all these questions at you anyway, when you've just woken up.