What are you talking about, this is entirely the best time to ask. What about this situation could possibly make it weird?

"Sounds like you've got some personal experience," Zephyr says, resigned in turn. "Don't worry about talking about it. But hey, the Dreaming makes us make new friends, right? That's something." It's an optimism that belongs more rightly to his friends, really, but they won't mind if he borrows it a bit.

Further, and further in. "I'm surprised this thing's still floating, really."