Sipping tea is not a distraction that gives anyone enough time to circle around that fast! Or maybe it does, since that seems to be what happened.

The doctor has a point, he thinks, about being concerned about Naugus' apathy towards his past. Didn't he have the same reaction? But the doctor has a question for him before he can ask more of his own, and the sudden appearance startles him just enough to inch him out of his comfort zone.

"N-Not everything i-in dreams are nice. I don't want to be... to be a tool for malevolent beings to hurt people with."