He doesn't startle; he's spoken the script aloud before after all, pieces of it anyway, his part of the call and response. Hearing something along the similar lines from Jesus isn't the strangest thing that's happened.

What kind of power do you have against the dark?

"Circling." Why are these things happening? "I don't want you to go."

Do you think you can protect people against the dark?

"I don't want this to be what our lives are."