He's since given up trying to figure out what Joker is meant to be (a shrimp, probably?), but all that scurrying still manages to be freaky to watch. People aren't meant to move like that, Joker! Though Childermass being Childermass, that he thinks that at all won't show on his face.

"Possibly," Childermass says with a shrug. He drifts forward to grab an edge of the cloth and reel it back in, wrapping it around his arm again as he does. "I might worry about hurting Lauren if it got too tangled."

Although that is what practice is for, isn't it?