[He sure can feel those daggers, mostly because it's practically impossible not to, even for his truly remarkable standards of cluelessness. That said, he doesn't actually care about Harley's opinion of him (or anyone else's opinion of him, for that matter). All he cares about is getting the thing to the cat and doing the puzzles and getting the world-thing.]

[...That said, his tails do kind of bristle up too. Special mention goes to the lynx tail, which was already so short and stubby that it now basically looks like an orb.]

Explosions mean things are happening, and we want to see what things they are. No explosions from the other place, means nothing's happening. Stupid.