"Ah, okay. I won't ask you to." Ernie wasn't the sort to pressure people into doing something that they didn't want to. If she wanted to tell him, she would. And if not? Well, he barely knew her anyway. It wasn't his business.
"A lot of us aren't," he told her. "We're all just being sent here at random. No one knows why or anything, but I have a few theories built up. There isn't much to hold them up though." He took note of her body language and frowned. "Do you want me to take you someplace? I mean, you are a new arrival, right? You did just get here and all?" His British accent was fairly light, so the uncertainty in his voice was very easy to follow.