[He what? Wants to lay it all out? Wants to take the realizations of a week ago and spread them out on the bar to be examined? Wants to set it in stone?]
[Nope. No. He can't. If he does that, then it's actually happening and he can't-]
[What he does do, completely and with an abrupt sinking feeling, is lose his nerve.]
no subject
[He what? Wants to lay it all out? Wants to take the realizations of a week ago and spread them out on the bar to be examined? Wants to set it in stone?]
[Nope. No. He can't. If he does that, then it's actually happening and he can't-]
[What he does do, completely and with an abrupt sinking feeling, is lose his nerve.]
I don't want to talk about it.