If it helps, I won't mind a little chat. Science can only explain so much, even in this world. They don't even understand the things they make with it part of the time, but they live now among people who call themselves gods. If she can believe that, it won't be a far cry off for her to believe in the idea of demons lurking about. They're only two halves of another world you yourself didn't believe in until... well...

[He grins all the more, finger curling under the boy's chin, lifting a little higher.] You've all the reason in the world to at least bring it up now. All that's left for you to do is to do it. No easy task, but if you really feel safer around me, you come on back any time.