It… it didn't really work to lighten the mood, no. Especially not when Nina realized, as the words sank in that, like, she'd just… upped her odds of dying that way quite a lot, simply by how much more she'd tied herself to his world now. To him.

And he didn't even know it yet.

"I know you care," she said, finally, after wrestling with herself over it. "But, like, I still keep thinking that……………… you're going to stop…………….."

She couldn't help it.