Somehow, I'm not surprised. [and he isn't. he hadn't heard of Sophie or Croix's worlds before coming here, so now he doesn't expect someone to have heard of his.]

[firmly but calmly] It's all right; I'm fine. I can leave whenever I want right now, but I can't knowing that these devices are still getting to people in other worlds. The next step after that is to bring the owners of said devices here, and after that? I don't know if we'll be able to leave quite so voluntarily again.