[maybe]

I'm not. [There's a stubborn indignation there. He's very much on the ground right now, after all!

At Emil's question he sighs loudly and falls back, hands folding over his stomach.] I don't know how to make people not like me enough to stop bothering me. It just happens eventually. Mostly.

[The expedition crew was an exception, and it's possible that was due to Tuuri's intervention. Or maybe just the fact that they were forced to occupy the same space so often.]

They like emotions. You could try not doing...that.

[That's normal, right?]