He's utterly not bothered by Dirk's need to answer the rhetorical, in fact he likes that he feel such a stubborn need to indulge his pedantic nature. So, as he goes on, Solus turns a bit more fully to look at him, clear amusement on his otherwise condescending features. In fact, it might even enhance the condescension.

However, what's more interesting than the fact these two have history or that John is (somehow) important, is rather what John has to say about that. Finally, John is capable of pulling Solus' attention from Dirk outside of the necessary earlier transaction, his scrutinizing gaze resting heavily upon him as he quirks an eyebrow.

"So, you are among those that should well be resting in the Lifestream, then?" He forgets himself for a moment, calling it the Lifestream when they might call it something otherwise, but it matters not, "how very interesting. I find there are more and more of you here... Does leave one to wonder what that may mean."

Is this some strange afterlife? He knows he isn't dead, and not everyone here are dead either. Oh well, it doesn't matter. Yet, he then quickly turns his attention to Dirk, his eyebrows raising, "if he is of the dead, then 'tis better to let him live out the rest of this meagerly prolonged existence as he sees fit. He has naught to return to, after all. Besides, I doubt he would be much help even if he wasn't set on his indolence."