He could still hear, even with his ears being all but plugged up by his itching fingers, but that didn't mean he understood just what the boy was getting at. Not that he'd really understood anything about the kid except for the fact that he was the worse person he'd ever seen at hiding himself.

"Reaction to what?" he asked for the heck of it. Whatever allergy or symptom or he didn't know what, he wanted it to stop bothering him and make his ears stop itching!