[ He listens to Tidus, still looking a little worried. He's got a point. But somehow, moments like this is when he's the most uncertain about how it's really like to be someone's parent. For certain, he never had the hands-on experience he should have had with Will. And when he was all alone then to parent him, he was taken from that world when his son was just ten. Too sick to really live a life, or anything apart from trying to get better. And that's going to take him down a dark rabbit hole, so he'll expertly maneuver out of that ditch for now and just takes a seat by the nearest place next to Tidus, still on the table, back to the other teen. ]

Hm. Alright. I'll try not to. It's just...

[ He recalls it well, just a few moments before this conversation really. ]

...I can't believe he didn't know that I sort of knew anyway. And then I told him I'd cancel dates with girls lined up to see him. That was another stupid joke. Gah.