" - well Batman doesn't exist, so I think you beat him there. I think he's also less of a nerd."

"Also if I were Batman, fuck the not-killing rule, I'd just shoot Joker. --But uh. I don't actually know what's up with Zana. I know it's medical stuff with an unpredictable price but that's it. Confidentiality stuff."

"Ah. I just kind of assumed you knew everything - you knew the answer I gave to the bedroom question, and stuff - "

"I asked about that! Because I didn't want to give you a crappy bedroom."

"I see! It was nice, it's a nice bedroom. Uh. Zana has - I'm sorry, I don't even know if you want to hear about this."

"You don't have to tell me, but I'm happy to listen if you want to."

" - she, uh, has a degenerative condition that affects the entire nervous system. You lose motor control, then your senses, then cognition. Untreated she has - probably five years, probably not ten."

"Well. Fuck.

...I'm glad I can help."

"Yeah! I'm, uh, glad you can, too. Obviously."

"I don't know what to... say or do at all."

"No, no, that's fine. Someone to help navigate paying for the medical care stuff would be appreciated, I guess? Possibly if - I mean I guess you probably don't know yet whether you want me to keep hanging out here."

Oh god, he's a horrible person, he is literally holding a dying four-year-old hostage for hugs. 

"...if you want to keep hanging out with me then I want to keep hanging out with you?" But of course she does because it's her fucking kid.

"Sure! Totally. I was just thinking that I, uh, don't actually have anyone else to keep Connor and Zana with long-term? So - I feel really weird asking if you'd be OK with them living here, given that you're the one paying for services here, and that you've known me for like two days, but - as long as we're having really weird conversations about our problems anyway."

Mostly her problems but whatever.

"Of course! I like kids. --Uh, I think."

" - OK. I can, uh, call them and give them nonzero time to think about it, then."

"They'll probably need like. Bedrooms? They can definitely come over during the day though until the bedrooms are ready."

"They're, um, not really in this state right now?"

"Yeah, I guess that probably would be way too much time on planes."

"Yeah. I mean, I don't think they'd mind hanging out in my room for a while, but if you think it'd be super inconvenient then they can hang out with their grandparents for a while longer."

"It depends on what's good for them, I think? I'm an adult, I'm flexible."

"OK! Great. I'll - see if I can explain anything that's happening to them without sounding like I've gone temporarily insane. ...it actually might be best to wait until the rooms are done purely to counteract the temporary insanity thing."

"Sorry I've made your life so ridiculous!"

He doesn't sound sorry.

"Well. I can hardly complain about the genre shift, under the circumstances."

"Um. I just wanted to say that. ...you're really pretty when you're happy."

"Well. Thank you."

- she should be worried about this or something, this is objectively a worrisome thing to say, under the circumstances. Probably she'll be very worried about this later.