"I'm grateful that I had the chance, believe me. I just don't like feeling useless. It's an old habit." Billy reminisced about his weaker days for a moment. Needing protection had been embarrassing then, and it was worse now. "Thank you, though."

When Jamie discusses his trip, specifically why he'd picked the locations he did, Billy sympathizes. "I didn't go to that Earth's version of my hometown either. Home constitutes more than just a physical location. Without the familiar people there, it isn't really home. All I would have done there was make myself miserable thinking about what was missing."