For better or worse they were all in this strange adventure together. Bonded by their shared experience, they might as well make the best of it. Or at the very least not make the situation more unpleasant.

Time is hard to track. "You're new, like me." The comment about the goose earned something of a quiet huff. "I had an... incident with that goose." Not a goose, he was tempted to say, but he has no stance to defend at the moment so he leaves it out.