[No worries, Billy. You can be sad about all that, and Peter will just beam good energies and over-abundances of determination and hopefulness — he's been pretty good at being the wide-eyed newbie, and with it comes a sense of... something not so miserable. Until the future totally throws Peter for a jaded and miserable loop, anyway, but that's hopefully... not any time soon.

He looks a little surprised that Billy's asking about him; he's totally awesome! Never been better.]

Oh, you know. Been getting used to things. Coming in at the end of the school year sucks, but at least they kinda make it workable since there are always so many refugees coming and going... Still working on the — the re-socializing thing.

... I'm actually kind of an introvert, most of the time.

[Turning into a beefier kid with powers kind of helped him come out of his shell.

Let out the inner punny sass-machine, if you will.]