[Spoilers Elliot, he's already responsible for a bunch of deaths! That part of Elliot's response is what makes him look away, the guilt of hunting down palismen adding to the already heavy weight that is his failure. Flapjack knows what's going on though, and hops back down to his shoulder to snuggle in close.

He hunches his shoulders. The real answer eludes him, but that doesn't matter.]

Probably, he knows a lot of things about the human realm. [Things like the trees, and whatever pancakes are.] But it doesn't matter that I came back, that doesn't change that I died. That I failed. [That word makes him shiver.] He's going to be disappointed!