Later along the way, Lucas understood why he had been having additional feelings about the air, apart from the psychological effects. It was because he had been having additional contact with it.
In his haste and deep-seated desire to stay under the radar, he had come out naked. Even if the most he could have done while staying within the boundaries he had set would have been to repurpose the female clothes of his jailers.
After making a detour, he went to the sand pool he met the team of Macans at during his first exploration task. It would be the ideal place to free his hands from the ball shaped garbage, so like a criminal looking to hide some compromising evidence, he made haste to the place only to run in circles in confusion.
He had not been there again after the first time as he had wanted to explore other places, but he didn't think he remembered the place wrong.