[He notices that slight shift in his stance there, and that in turn makes him relax just slightly, too, though there's a tension in him that just doesn't leave him, no matter what.]
Yeah. I'm not sure how exactly it works, the Doc never got around to explaining it that clearly... but whatever it is, it's something. Some kind of connection. Because--
[-- because he's dying, that's what, though he doesn't exactly want to spell it out like that. So instead, he ends up giving a non-committal shrug as a response; not an answer, but then, he doesn't really have many clear answers to give, anyway.]