...Usually I'd drag you out to do somethin' else so you didn't have to think about any of this, but I guess that's not really--the right thing to do here. I'm tryin' to listen when people talk!

[ he goes quiet again for a few more seconds, again visibly trying to figure out what to say; he's pretty sure he was about to drift into uncomfortable-when-not-about-me territory. But this is new and different for him and it's very challenging and things with Maki are... awkward. At best. Eventually he settles on: ]

So... I dunno what I should be doing. ... Is there somethin' I can do?