[ Ah. He falters a little, because he was hoping the bit about couches would’ve thrown her off, and maybe he would’ve explained Woody Allen movies to her, because man, it’s shocking how many Terrans know so little about the classics—

He flounders for a second or two, scrounging for the right words, then, slowly, ]

I guess, uh. If you really wanna know. I’ve been kinda— you know when it’s like, you… think about something, when you know you shouldn’t? But you keep looping back around to it anyway? Like getting a song stuck in your head.