"You probably can, later." Lucky bastard, free from many of the needs that can drive someone who doesn't want anything to do with other people into interacting with them. "But to escape this place, I think you'll have to make it a choice." He waves his cigarette, he knows it's already a choice. "I think you'll need to try to understand people as people - and decide at that point that you want as little to do with them as possible."