North actually almost chuckles at being poked, though it's hard enough to rather hurt. He sucks his cheek in when Wash pokes at it, and allows his body to waver in his seat a little to show how hard Wash poked him in the arm.

"I don't know how much it counts for helping to convince you, but that hurt me," he said. "I guess you poking yourself hurt, too."

He crosses his arm over his body so he can pat Wash on the arm, just a couple times, gently.

"I'm really here. I barely understand where here is but..."

He shrugs.

"At first when I woke up here I thought Theta was gone," he confides a moment later. "I wouldn't have put it past them to take him, but they didn't."