"Seems to be working on you just fine," aaaaabsolutely deadpanned. It's almost too easy, but he'll take it. He'll take Joseph not talking to him like one of them is in the midst of breaking. Must not have been too hellish of a couple months.

He's reading Joseph's notes upside down, even as Joseph elaborates, and can't help but feeling there's a joke in here he's not quite catching. His next thought, however,

"That's...some kind of fairy tale, wasn't it?" rhetorical, as he's clearly still working it out, until, "Sleeping Beauty? Pricked her finger on a spindle. Not sure what a ring has to do with it, though."

Of course it's another goddamn puzzle.