"Aw." Tarantulas's pedipalps twitch in sympathy -- which unfortunately is all he can offer. It isn't as if there's anyone back in his universe that he really misses apart from Springer -- and it would take more hubris than even he is capable of to call Springer 'his person.'

"I could teach you how to use a chisel, if you'd like," he says instead. "It's really not that difficult."