Haha, well. There certainly was a beach.

[A cold, creepy beach with half-squid people washing up occasionally.]

[Something hardens, in his expression, though his smile remains in place.] Yes. Unfortunately, such an experience is universal, regarding those creatures.

[He'd know. For so very many reasons. Didn't he?]

[And then the mask slips. Just for a moment. The smile fractures at the edges. Anyone you know here - it's like a hundred missing faces just flashed through his memories.]

[But, to his new friend, he simply blinks, as if coming back to himself. The smile snaps into place.]

Ah, no, it seems no one I'm familiar with followed me here.