Our lives are all about balance, [he says as he sits on the cot. He's not sitting on the damn floor.] Our connection to the mundane world is what saves us, and we want - need - to feel accepted by it. And when we do things counter to that, it...

[Jamie tries to think, absently fidgeting with the ribbon on his pajama pants.]

We start to lose the ability to tell the difference. Coming out of the Hedge like that? That's not normal. Normal people don't do that. The normal world doesn't work that way.