I'm 15. [ Skylark says as if to emphasize that he's not that young, thank you very much. ] Who holds hands just to get through a crowd at that age? And in any case, weren't you the one who decided to "waste your time", as it were?

[ Just saying that he chose to help even when it wasn't strictly needed!

...Honestly, he wishes he could be more surprised that the crowd decided to treat that vision as a play, but he isn't. ]