Regis is certainly trying to come up with all the options that he can which might explain what they have been told. And he needs more information. Definitely more information.

And that is certainly not something that Regis thinks of as a secret. Though he can understand, if in his later years his is even a little like his father, why that would be a surprise.

Instead, he smiles. "Drawing power from knowledge of the stars. That does seem appropriate."