I don't know. [He really doesn't. There's the usual answer. The Malnosso like to screw with them. But it's such an easy excuse. Convenient. It made it fake, when he knew that it was anything but.

But if there was a reason, he didn't know what it was. Except, maybe, to expose his failure to do anything.]

I want to help her. I know I can't make things better. She'll go back and won't remember anything and her life won't change. But if I could just connect to her.

[If he could make her smile, then at least he could feel like there was hope for her.]