Re: [WHY ARE WE HERE]
[. . . narrows his eyes some at that]
We don't have the luxury of being able to protect ourselves like you do. And we didn't want protection from blanks, but we couldn't let Lepus keep protecting us, either. It isn't as though she steps in for us when we're in trouble; unless it comes to things like being taken to the Earth. In those terms, she's protected me from that.