[It's less likely that Walter can set Ben off balance up on this rock... though what can currently be sustained of his situational awareness is still worried about it.]

Not everyone 'gets' emotions straightaway, Ben.

[That part he can say with confidence, even after the rest of him has been shaken this thoroughly.]

Or even feels specific emotions to the same expected extent.

[He'd seen some of that in the cult, growing up; some of the kids - hell, and the adults - just didn't react to things outside of a certain emotional range. Some of it was regimented thinking, true, but some of it was just - tendency. Temperament.]