Cameron hesitates for a moment, struck by the way his own words sound when reformed by her, feeling a little weak for it. There's no harm, though, in occasionally admitting one is sometimes in need of distraction and companionship. "Well, in that case," he says, getting to his feet, "shall we?" He holds out a hand to her, intended as an offer to help her up, although it's not wholly selfless. Just a moment of contact from someone else might be nice.

It's not like he goes around hugging people (actually, the strangest thing is realizing the last person to hug him was Divya, of all people, Divya who's a good friend but has always clearly preferred Tyler anyway), like he needs constant contact or shows of affection (or like he lacked for that, in fact, growing up), but still, it's been weeks of being stranded, a stranger in a strange land where the only people who have any idea who he is are people attached to things he has no way of dealing with. There's no recourse for all this now, so as much as he would like to find a way to put things right or at least make sense of it, allowing himself to forget for a brief while is a viable alternative. If it makes him feel a little less on his own, then it's not such a terrible thing for her to know he would like that.