His brows knit at that, on the verge of suspicious. He doesn't recognize Charles, but he's hardly familiar with the entire mutant community, and there aren't many reasons to lie about such a thing, especially here. "It's as if this place is collecting us," shaking his head.

"That is two things we have in common, then." Being mutants and being teachers, that is. (...Yes, really.) "The field of mutant secondary education being understandably small, however, I suspect we do not share a universe. Which school are you with?"

Implying there are multiple where he comes from, yes.