"Really watered down, right? I agree!" Blue laughs, a bit sheepish; drinking humor, now that's a little more in his vein than polite company, but he's trying to behave around a lady. "Weird, isn't it? You'd think it would mostly have been boiled out by the kettle, but I guess that makes about as much sense as the lake being full of it."

"Not that a lot about this place makes sense." He squeezes his eyes shut as he takes another sip from his mug, using it to mask the bit of a shudder he gives as that sickening tower he'd spotted in the distance bubbles back to mind.

"...If I'm being honest, I'd prefer to pretend I didn't see it. So in that sense, you're probably right."