[he’d like to argue once again that what he’d previously done to billy and teddy while under the thumb of the cube’s warden was not really his fault - brainwashing negates free will, after all - but noh goes momentarily quiet over that last stipulation tommy issues.]

You needn’t worry about that, [he says, much more subdued than he’d been.] My last relationship ended quite recently, and badly. [and it was his fault, which complicates things even further.] I don’t think I’m ready to make another attempt, and I have no interest in “hooking up” in the interim.