Yeah. Because not letting him go deal with his embarrassment was kinder. "I'm not going to do something stupid!" he insisted. "I am going to go back to my assigned fucking prison cell, take off the clothes I pissed in terror because a snake...person almost ate me, take a goddamned shower, but on clean clothes and...I don't know, fucking hide under the covers and wish for death. I do not need help with this. Really."