Kellen is totally not getting his meaning, but he can't think of any better way to explain the situation to this idiot that totally doesn't get the weight of this admission. With any hope, Leech won't be told. "Don' have another Leech." He says simply. Like it's his way of saying 'I love him above all others and wish to be near'. "Yer new... ya don' know... what stuff means." Like Kellen is the newbie in their class and wasn't there to copy the homework from the previous week. Like any of this matters to him.

For a second, Ruckus - with Leech on the brain - seems to forget it's not the parasite sitting with him, (Kellen's familiar appearance doesn't help) And he reaches out with a wrapped arm and splinted finger for Kellen's cigarette in a familiar sort of comfortable action, like they do this all the time. He and Leech do, of course. But this is just a mind slip, innocent enough.