Shiro realizes that his mouth has come ajar and snaps it shut. "Uh, yeah, I did." he answers distractedly and immediately plunges on. "That was you? I... didn't even consider that the gas leak was actually a. Whatchamacallit. Event? Tesseract? Thing. I just pulled in two of my neighbors. Wh. How many people wound up affected? Er, I mean." He sighs and runs a hand through his hair, making it stick up oddly like a ruffled duck. "I guess how did that affect so many people is my actual question."