I do not want to be uselss for long. I am more sure now that the Watch is a Very Good Thing and it is needed.

[At the moment, Youth was fairly certain that he couldn't pass a medical exam. So he would at least wait for now. Bell was studying him, almost as if getting ready for something. Perhaps he was going to try to tie Youth up anyway. Youth readied himself, as much as he could while laying down... and stared at the arm in confusion.]

But if you do not want to be tasted then it would not be polite to taste you. [Scared? Like Youth would be scared by something like that. But just... tasting someone seemed weird. Then again, if people hadn't been so clearly upset by others tasting them, Youth would have been tempted to obey the signs the first time flavor showed up.] I do not get scared.

[Unless his arm tasted like some sort of sleeping drug. Could you get knocked out by taste alone? Probably not. And if he backed down now, he'd be teased mercilessly by Bell, he was certain. The signs said to taste. What could it hurt? And it could also serve to distract his roommate, somehow. He reached up and took the arm, bringing Bell's wrist to his mouth. It was a very quick taste, a flick of the tongue.]

You taste like the rain. I do not see why it was so hard to tell me.