( it's a slight relief that someone else is seeing what his mind is still struggling with, but also a little terrified that ... someone else is seeing what his mind is still struggling with. it's hard to feel better when an impossibility is presented as reality. he glances around the street to see if anyone else is alarmed by the tear in reality, but nobody else seems to be around. which is weird enough in and of itself. )

You think that it won't stay open if we walk through? Wait, has this happened to you already? ( that would explain why Erwin is so much calmer about the situation, if he's lived and dealt with it once before. )

I can handle a hike. I want to know what happens if I go through. ( will walking through a temporal hole in spacetime make him weak or weird or change his hair color or nothing at all? is he just going to wake up suddenly and be in a new house and have a new family and it'll just start all over again? he's not sure. he still wants to know, anyway. probably risky, but Peter has a tendency to take risks. frequently. )