Despite the stinging pain, the awkward, the mess, Neil takes the cleaning as well as it can be expected. Tense and unhappy. It takes much of his concentration not to whimper.

Somehow, this does not stop him from actually responding to Alex. "Cali...fornia is where the Vault...Dweller is from?" he manages between breaths. "Go see...his vault...?"

Because according to a special guy in a special kind of power armor, the Vault Dweller is famous around those parts.