"Take it as you want; I'm juat answering your question. Point is, it tends to be pretty damned obvious when I go off the rails. Not that I expect you to know what that would look like."

Since they're barely on their second exchange.

"If you aren't affected, I'd just suggest using some caution until you can get the measure of the people around you, see what they're most likely to do in reaction to things. They're...not interested in us so much as in..."

He has to think for a minute, while he tries to sort out what's in his own head and gut.

"Keeping us from getting taken."