At least try?

[He reaches for Billy's wrist again; it's not the same, but it is comforting, as it always was back then. And it does give him reasonable confirmation Billy is real, as well. He might be over the hallucinations of a particularly guilty conscience, but who knows what all that time in hell might have done?]

Besides, you were friends with the future Kang the Conqueror, weren't you? After that, I shouldn't be that much harder.