"If people argue with me then I'm not scaring them," Winter points out. "The goal here. Is to not feed the Stranger. Arguing people aren't feeding the Stranger. So that's. Fine, I guess."

It's not really all that fine. He doesn't know how he'd react if someone actually got angry with him. He might get angry back. He might wilt. Maybe it would depend on the day, or on who's yelling at him.

"Being frightened for me counts, sometimes," he adds. "So. Maybe try not to do that, either. If it's to do with me not being a real person."