[Caitlyn likes touching people. It's instinctive. It's comforting. No one's ever admonished her for it before, and why should they? Most people, she remains convinced, will not attempt to stab her for merely touching them.

But instead of offering another objection and receiving another admonishment, she circles back around to an unanswered question.]

Why aren't you sure they're missing you? The people you have to get back for. You said 'maybe' when I suggested someone might be missing you. Why?

[If she were less inclined to be charitable, she might ask whether it had to do with his killing people with rocks. But 'I like you, kid' is more encouragement than she's gotten from most people in her life, and he probably is trying to help her, mad as his methods and confounding as his conclusions may be. So she refrains from being uncharitable.]