"That would imply I have a shield to begin with," he muttered to himself, sounding a bit bitter about it, before he spoke up. "I... feel stuff," he finally confessed. "Touching an object or a person or an animal, it can be anything. I feel emotions from them, of stuff that's happening now or has already happened and sometimes even stuff that hasn't happened yet. Sometimes it happens even when people are just standing close to me. I was... kind of learning how to block it back home, but I've never been able to really control it. Even these don't always help." He held his hands up and wiggled his fingers to show the gloves he always wore. "The stronger the emotion, the harder it is to block it, and when there's a lot of people..." He waved a hand at the various people around them. "That makes it harder too. It sucks."