[He pauses and decides he should probably stop trying to eat cherries. Ahh...]

So Marco has noticed that too... It is truly seeming like others were here. [A frown and he makes sure to watch Marco.]

Are you no longer comforted by them being "fakes?" [He doesn't speak with the quotations, but he thinks with them. He's really finding it hard to believe they're fake now, but he doesn't want to insult Marco...]