Tilting his head, Alec gets a slightly distant look in his eyes before snapping back to the here and now.

"Yeahup. He knows now and is ... I don't know... conflicted?"

It's hard to tell with his older self a lot of times because he doesn't have a really good bead on what he thinks, since he tends to keep that sort of thing blocked. His older self, of course, knows everything that happens with him but not the other way.

Time travel, it's crazy.

"It is. She'll want to see Phoenix, of course," he said. "Hopefully who ever she gets to first will be able to explain it."

The back rubbing is nice and he lolls his head against Vahl's shoulder.