"Sorry," he said quickly. He hadn't intended for the statement to be offensive, but he realized in hindsight how it could have been. "I didn't mean it like that. It's just... it's really different here. Like... I feel like I'm used to life moving at one pace, and up here I'm always half a minute and a step behind. Like when everyone's laughing and you don't know why, and you're not sure it's not at you."