Explanations might help keep him alive. Shouldn't he want that?

"You say that like you think this is some kind of kidnapping," he sighed, not budging an inch from his dune. "She is asleep. She has three broken fingers, five cracked ribs, a broken nose, a dislocated knee, and a great deal of bruising. She did not puncture a lung, which is for the best." Very much so.

"Something like your Grant requires a trained team or it requires lives. She wouldn't give your life to it, but she didn't have a team. She needs her rest. A between place like this is not a place creatures like you can live, but you can rest for a time and she knows it. It is familiar to her, which allows her to rest well."