"I like to listen." Eli had found that listening was the best way to learn — about the other person as well as himself. And he does find Woden interesting, with or without Sleipnir involved; it's naive and well-meaning curiosity.

"Though I'm not actually very interesting myself, that's why I like to do so." Self-deprecating to the end.

Eli glances down at the crowd below, "Do you ever go there? Or is being here all you want?