This is worse than trying to get Steven U. to open up about his real feelings, holy shit. Connie just wants to throttle Dirk and scream at him to stop being such an idiot, but unfortunately that won't help.

(She can still dream, though.)

"I'm so dead set on this because I've had to be a professional adult for a bunch of emotionally maladjusted thousands of years old woman children for the past few years of my life and I know how much damage not talking about feelings can do to both you and people you trust.

"And if you say that your feelings don't matter because of some grand cosmic bullshit, I'm firmly of the opinion that you should go to fucking therapy, but since I know you'll refuse that option I'm the next best thing you have. Spill it, buster."