If you tell me what you think I should do, I'll do it. I don't know what will make everyone happiest at this point? I can go back to the base, it's not like I haven't lived with people I don't trust before, it was kind of dumb to come to expect that.

[ it isn't like he's sleeping at the tower any longer anyway, so it was a moot point in the end. it does have the benefit of feeling safer despite the lack of sleep, but he's willing to sacrifice that if it means everyone else just...stops. ]

I didn't want to tell you about the problem with trust because that was selfish, too. Expecting any level of secrecy out of you that you couldn't give. I meant it when I said I'd work on just...givin' you whatever there.

[ ... ]

I can't promise to open up about this kind of thing with people, though, I - most people don't have the context. I told Jade? But I can't just tell everyone, Dirk. I - if that's the only way to make everyone happy, I'd try, but I don't -

[ he barely has managed to tell four people in the space of seventeen years. ]