It's clearly because he's just got a face nobody listens to rather than any sort of being-wrong on his part. Or possibly it's a defining human racial characteristic to require learning absolutely everything through personal experience rather than being able to gain knowledge second-hand. Although, yes, the constant having to rescue companions does account for quite a bit of his usual schedule.

Has he not? He'd assumed it was inherent in the telling her she was beautiful; which come to think of it might have itself been somewhat inherent in the telling her she was brilliant... Grow up in a culture of people who change their face a dozen times, commenting on individual beauty might fall a little by the wayside. And also he's just very crap about assuming things are apparent or understood through actions.

'Professional hide and seek. Challenging hide and seek. The sort of hide and seek where you actually get to use all of your physical senses instead of just the basic five.'

Yes, totally.