Well, you've never made anything easy for me before... [ He sighs. ] I suppose it makes sense, that you'd be disagreeable even then.

[ This is comfortable, just standing here, bantering back and forth. It almost seems, sometimes, that nothing has changed.

(He's glad his lack of a heart is literal, if only because he's fairly certain that if it wasn't that it would be hammering against his chest and he doesn't need that distraction to grapple with on top of everything else that this is.

Whatever it is.

He really is hopeless, sometimes.) ]