Leon just nods along with that, looking a little overwhelmed at the near confirmation of multiverse theory as a proper Scientific Theory theory and not just the kind of thing that he'd never otherwise put much thought into outside of watching science fiction movies. That's something he's gonna be up all night thinking about, but for now that can be a later problem.

"Yeah," he says, a little distantly. "At least we're past the lead pipes phase."

A pause, and he comes crashing back into the present moment as something occurs to him.

"We are past the lead pipes phase, right? I have no idea when we stopped doing that." Fuck, if he'd known he was gonna wind up in a weird time-unstuck island between life and death he would've paid way more attention in history class.