Perhaps he can, that is what he intends on doing. Trying to listen for clues that perhaps Nida missed out on in his defensive recoil. They were good at reports, that's one good thing. Overall, however, Garden still wasn't that important to them here.

Nida remembered... his parents? Seifer's brows furrowed, but he remained on topic. Choosing instead to file that away to consider another time. Instead he listens intently, brow remaining furrowed while he mulled it over. Alright, interesting, none of that sounded like an outright rejection to him. He made a thoughtful "hmm" through his nose while he chewed on all that.

"Then what'd he say?" To him that sounded like a potential lead-up to something else. Not an insistence that he wasn't interested, merely taking his time. Or perhaps considering someone very specific. Someone he spent a lot of long nights talking to before going to bed, perhaps.