He relents when she makes the pacifying gesture with her blood-smeared hand and nods. He's fine with not going in for the handshake, in this case.

"Mathias township," he answers in a voice that sounds...tired? weary? "Probably somewhere in the New England region, if we had a guess, but nobody knows for sure." They should really make a flyer or something with all the basic questions one might need to know on arriving here. Stick 'em all around here, the Gull, the boarding house, and all the. other public spaces. He'll file that way and talk to someone about it later. Probably Malcolm.