He didn't! He won't. I'm feeling so useless and rejected right now.

"If you love something, set it free" and all that jazz. Did it come back?

Yeah, it's a UI element that accompanies zooming in on the landscape to try to hold on to things that are escaping your grasp. Like, in this case, my suckerer friend over there, who is discovering a new life for himself, on his own. :(

Took me a while to notice that the thing at the top of the screen is not a red sky, but a hand.

"They grow up so fast!"