Billy really didn't need to worry himself about it. The Soldier was self sufficient; he could provide for his own survival outside the community. He was fine.

"It is not something I'm accustomed to doing," he admitted haltingly. "Wishing. Wanting." Still concepts that were foreign to him at times; he knew he struggled with even basic wants. But foreign too was the idea of being teased in a friendly manner, and he didn't quite know what to do with it.