"Oh! Pardon me," and Billy gives her an easy, friendly smile, "didn't mean to be rude. The name's Rocketbilly. Rocketbilly Redcadillac." He drawls his last name in proper showman fashion, then chuckles. "But you can just call me Billy." Fending off another bout of light-headedness, he makes a quick skip-step to catch Layer up. She sure doesn't waste time!

Not that he blames her. Best save most of the social niceties for a nicer setting, he decides, and keeps one hand ready on his guitar strings. But saving the social stuff doesn't mean silence, and if it's one thing Billy can't stand, it's long walks without some conversation. Juji was terrible at it.

"Any idea how you got here?" he wonders. He's not sure how he wound up in the middle of a disaster area; doesn't mean Layer mightn't have thought about it.