[Actually in his world if normal humans saw this they would probably think the same. But that didn't deny the fact that they weren't anything close to magical, at least not in the normal sense of the word.]

If I wished to be alone I would have gone to the furthest point in the barrier. Company or solitude means nothing to my current training.

[Technically company is more beneficial for that training but he wasn't going to beg for it either or do it in the middle of the fountain.]