It would have given me more teams to send out, but it didn't feel right, which is why I didn't. I could have tried to protect those unable to search, like Miss Hatter, or anyone else who didn't want to search. But I didn't want to remove your choice, not when you finally got one.

We have to trust that they are. Once this is done, I'll be able to check on them.

[He shakes his head.] No, because the technology he used was originally developed to work only on those outside of our universe. If he decided to, he could make it so all of you can only speak in rhyme, but nothing would happen to me. I cannot be affected directly--only tangentially.