Dipper ignored Strange's concern. It was difficult to respond to it when his brain was telling him the blood wasn't a big deal.

"After that mentally scarring video we saw that I really, really wish I could unsee --" it'd had even him cringing and looking away in horror, and he'd seen some pretty terrifying stuff in his time. "-- this...force swept through the command deck and it seemed to knock everyone out."

He remembered seeing people falling around him, right before his mind had slipped away, too. It was still a little fuzzy but he was used to concentrating through all the scary.

"Then we woke up here." He looked around. "Wherever here is."

A pause.

"I'm thinking of calling it 'The Weird.' Or maybe the Negaverse?" he shrugged. "It's a work in progress. Anyway, let me look at your face and see if this thing can come off or if your face went all weird and turned into it."

He reached up towards Stephen's face, slowly and carefully, making it clear he wasn't trying to hurt him, to see if the mask seemed attached or if it was actually part of him now.

With Stephen's knifey fingers it wasn't like it'd be easy to do it for himself.