"Boy," he said with a quiet but slightly bitter laugh, "you really think if I get out there I'm gonna be stupid enough to get myself banished here again? I wanna get to the other side and stay there, thanks all the same. What I did to get myself tossed here in the first place was try and get out of the bottom of the barrel. Now that I see that old barrel's been on a trap door this whole time? I'll do what it takes to climb back out and stay out. I'm going nowhere but up, and that you can lay your cards on."