Dan smiles. It's a gentle smile, a your secret is safe with me smile, even though they've just met. Dan's not going to be the person to spread around that which people would rather keep under wraps.

"Want me to show you around and see if we can't could find you a better place for yourself here at the Pole? I know this place well." Dan had the benefit of living in a world very similar to this, Bunny's world, with the Guardians. He visited the Pole regularly. "After we find this miscreant."

Because so far no devastating secrets seem to have emerged, but Dan would rather not be compelled to blurt out confessions, and he's sure no one else would either.