Hermit: Did you just fart?
Emerald: No. You must be smelling the chronic gas leak in the house that results in these kooky threads.
Hermit: Oh. So you didn't fart?
Emerald: ..... (sighs) ... No.
"But that is not the question. Why are we here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for the tank to cycle."