There's a flicker of...something, disappointment, probably. He can't say he's surprised to hear it but it's one of the few things he'd happily accept to be proven wrong in. "Oh. Well...I guess they'd be hard to miss if they were. Mikey'd be easy to locate by loudness alone." The attempted smile doesn't want to stick and Donnie's not particularly in the mood to try to keep it there.

It's a different expression altogether when Layla mentions magic. He's definitely got some conflicted feelings on the matter. "Right, the...planetary alignment thing, was it?" He makes a face as he looks at his hands. "Sounds like a handy trick though. Most of the time we'd just claim we were in cosplay if we ran into humans in public. Guess it doesn't matter so much here, huh?"