I asked you to before sometimes but I figured you just didn't want to. Since you, like, didn't. I didn't want to push it in case you got annoyed.

[ dave shrugs, shifts his arms so they're crossed over his chest instead of his eyes, but he doesn't open those. ]

I...don't know how long it'll take to fix it. I know how long lots of things do take or will take, is the thing. I can time a lot of things to the millisecond, but I don't know the answer to this. There are...more factors. And some of them we're not gonna talk about. [ because, honestly, he doesn't...trust...dirk...enough to talk about them, it's kinda circular here ] I don't know if I'll trust you as much, or if I'll trust you less, or if I'll trust you more. I don't know if I can promise you one result over the others. I...can promise you that I'll love you?

[ that, at least, has never been a question. ]

I can help you try to fix the Jake thing. I can't, like, give you us right now. But I can try to give you that.