"Okay, I got about half of those word, and most of them were not the nouns." He keeps holding his guy's hand, knowing if it wasn't allowed, the hand would be gone. "I know how it feels to be worked up like that. To let it start with throwing a pebble into a still lake and watching it ripple out from there. And then I threw a rock in, and we kept rippling at each other. Felt like you were trying to test me and all the reforming I've been doing."

"Do you wanna try the decorate thing, or you wanna break from here? Maybe a tour of this place? So I know who we're gonna be bothering when you finally let me wrestle you in bed."