[ rose always calls things right and dave's heard his own issues turned back around at him too many times from her. it helps, because he never says them to himself, and she's a person he can let say those things even if it drives him up the wall. his left hand goes to the back of his neck as he tracks dirk's reactions - the flinch is mirrored in the tension in his fingers, but he doesn't move, and just hopes it was the right choice to share the conversations and not the wrong one - and he frowns at the suggestion. ]

I dunno if that'd - I say the shit I do to her because it's... [ ...? what? ] I don't know. Uh, which part do you...suggest starting with. I'm not dodgin', I just - I don't know where to start. The...saying no thing? The decision thing. The Rose draggin' everyone constantly thing and annoyingly usually bein' right?