[Dirk's surprised by the movement but he doesn't stop it and he doesn't object to Dave needing a minute. Dave says he needs time and Dirk will give it to him, realizing that he made a mistake, that he let his own intellectualizing habits lose him a strong vision of present emotion. But Dave asked for time, and that's better than Dave totally running away.

Dirk lets him rest, and he turns his hand over in his lap, palm up. Dave can take it if he wants or ignore it if he can't deal with that right now either.

Oh it's question time for Dirk now. Uh.]

I'm... not sure what you're referring to. I'm not denying I have a bit of a thing about my splinters and which one of us is most real or the best one, that's definitely a thing. But I don't know what possible misrepresentation you're talking about.