Leon considers trying not to stare for about half a second before realizing that that's just not going to happen. There's a bird man in front of him, talking to him, and he has never seen anything like it and he's just gonna blink a few times to make sure he's not seeing things.

(Not that he's sure even now that this whole thing isn't some kind of bizarre dream, but there's a hierarchy to what kinds of things he expects to deal with in a given scenario.)

"Uh, yeah," he says, after a long enough pause to be a little awkward, though to his credit he manages to stomp down his lingering confusion well enough to make eye contact once he's done gawking. "Just showed up last night. Really stellar welcoming committee you've got here."