He looks a bit miserable, slipping hurriedly into the room and babbling something completely incomprehensible in rapid-fire Arabic.
"I shouldn't have asked to go with them, I didn't know they were going to hit him that hard, and he was very kind to me and wanted to see how I could swim, and then they hit him over the head with a stick and now I can't talk to him."
'Hit him over the head with a stick' is accompanied by a rather creative and enthusiastic mimicking gesture.