Uh, that just seems... pointless. There's so much bigger things to be concerned about.

[People are checking weird and he'll never understand them.]

Sure, it might be that they show up later? I mean, who knows? There's lots of people showing up on the beach, right? At all times.

[He sounds like he's trying to convince himself pretty hard because the thought of showing up here without Fern- or Fern ending up back in Ooo- is too much to deal with right now.]