You would prefer to simply stand here, trapped? When all we would need to do is hug? [Youth blinks.] But it does matter! It could be important! We do not know why we are here or anything, and if this is a clue, then it is important! Why are you so, so distant?

[And now he was being ignored. For a book. And something tickled in the back of his head. Youth gasped, staring at Bell.] You are not just distant. You are aloof.