When I love someone I love 'em forever. I don't really know any other way to work - but usually it ends up being in memory, or from a distance. I learned I could usually only do relationships in small doses.

Or maybe I'd got in the 'abit of running away just in case, I don't know. Maybe I were just so sure I'd mess it up it were easier not to give meself the chance.

...Cain's made friends with your Elsa.

[She'd been getting gradually dreamier, radiant; now she snaps visibly back into the present. Still smiling, still happy, but Iris is suddenly back in business mode.]

Struck me as unlikely as 'ell, but 'e's taken to 'er. We were trying to keep 'er cheered up, while you were gone.