I guess I can understand that. You don't want to be dragged back, after you've struggled to be something more than what your whole culture tried to make of you...

Did you ever know the Doctor, Iris? The one with the scarf, and the curly hair, I mean?

[Prefect's Doctor, in other words. They used to bring each other weird get well soon gifts while death tolling, and investigate mysteries.]

Well, first he licked his hand at Barron, which is... sort of a cultural... thing, and then he was sucking his fingers, and it was really disturbing and not like him at all.