It makes sense. If he can understand it, he doesn't have to think about it any longer. For Ruby, it wasn't as terrifying as she had thought it would be, she knew it would make her lose any sanity she'd arrived with.

She shakes her head at his question, struggling to put it into words that would have any meaning. "Not cold." Other than the outside temperature. "Like I'm choking or...being exorcised, but still me." She takes a great, gasping breath trying to get the choking feeling to subside. "Like I have to breathe and I can't remember how."