He's glad he doesn't need to answer or respond to that. If anyone can...it would be you. Like the thought of communicating with the train doesn't make him apprehension, even a little - scared. Stupid, but a stubborn hurt he's been carrying for days, or just a reminder of what's always been true, but he allowed himself to forget.

How they're just a bunch of people, stuck in a moving box, with no control.

"I think it just doesn't know, right? It doesn't bring us here," he believes that much, "and the people that used to come on this train before, the first Voidtreckers - it sounds like they were from the same worlds. Decent ones. Why would the train look into that? It just does what it's supposed to do."