[ this is about to be so disastrous as elysium has reached the threshold where he believes he needs to fill in the dead air or he will die. ]

… Yeah. You could've pulled a dramatic reversal. 'I was into you this entire time, too.' … something like that.

But maybe that would've just raised its own problems. Like, did you only figure it out because you finally hit puberty…?

[ instead, they can both die when thorns inevitably wants to end him then himself. he really needs to stop running his mouth. ]

Wait. That can still be it. [ … ] Is that how it is? I'd be fine with it.

[ he doesn't know in another universe it was the other way around ]