[Uta trying to get van Zieks to start up singing What Else Can I Do or something.]
That- [And then his rational brain catches up.]
It's a very complicated situation I neither care to nor should burden you with. I've already said too much. It's... I suppose because you... remind me of someone. [Someone who he wishes he could speak freely with. Iris's smiling face, now familiar in an echoed sense, is fresh in his mind, but for how long? What if he never speaks to her again? What if he never earns the right to tell her everything he wants to say?]
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That-
[And then his rational brain catches up.]
It's a very complicated situation I neither care to nor should burden you with. I've already said too much. It's... I suppose because you... remind me of someone.
[Someone who he wishes he could speak freely with. Iris's smiling face, now familiar in an echoed sense, is fresh in his mind, but for how long? What if he never speaks to her again? What if he never earns the right to tell her everything he wants to say?]