Ned is one of the people who is feeling slightly than less calm about this development. He was never all that good with change (particularly not sudden change that was out of his control) even before he was brought here. It also doesn't help that, in his experience, change is never for the better in this place.

He has a feeling that the guy who is sitting off to the side, staring up at the sky as if he doesn't have a care in the world, may have some advice to offer about how to keep a level head. Or maybe Ned is just hoping to catch some of his mellowness via osmosis. Either way, he comes over and sits down beside him (but not too close), cross-legged and hunch-shouldered in awkwardness, but doing his best to be friendly.

"You seem surprisingly calm, given the, uh... situation. What's your secret?"