"No, that's not true --"

Andrew's voice is scaling up from anxious to frantic; he has to convince him, he can't leave him here thinking anything so awful.

A straw presents itself, and he grasps at it. "You said, didn't you say he told you not to go? He was trying to warn you -- he wouldn't have done that if he thought you were just a, a fictional character, you know he wouldn't have, that wouldn't make any sense."