Strange has never met a silence that he can't fill with awkward conversation. So, he keeps talking. He's also noticed that Peridot isn't really showing him how to farm anymore. Should he start digging a hole? Strange starts digging a hole in an intensely lopsided fashion.

"I know I'm not the only one who thinks that. There are others who have someone or something important to them like I do." Rita. Zangetsu. Childermass, if he ever gets out of this annoying self-defeating funk that he seems to be in. "This could all change if by some miracle Ignatius frees himself. But as of now...I've got to think about my future."

And how he's not going to spend the rest of his life cooped up in some technological hellhole, serving as a lab rat.