Well, she's not wrong.

"Not going anywhere," he says. "But I have to look for my parents. You haven't seen them, have you? They look like me, except taller-" he raises one hand, palm flat and facing downwards, to indicate tallness, "-and well, my mother's a girl and has longer hair. And my dad has a mustache."

He lowers his hand and clasps it tightly to his other one, forming an anxious knot of fingers.