Youn...old? [ 'Old enough'? Wait, just let him- ] I'm seventeen. But, I-- I wouldn't let someone just kill me, but-- if there's a test and it happens... we come back, and-- I get people trying to protect their universes. People think their universes are in danger if they don't do the missions.

[ He's hurrying his words some now, wanting to explain--because he knows how bad that sounded now, but there's good reasons behind it, right? And they come back, and new people don't usually know that. ]