She doesn't need adulation. [well, he's wrong there, but at least they've already sort of accepted that he's not going to fawn on her and she can live without it] You can keep the poetry, we already talk to each other like normal people.
[he's been under the weight of A Talk ever since she said they needed to have one, so he hasn't conceived of doing it any other way. Inflexibility is his trademark, after all.]
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[he's been under the weight of A Talk ever since she said they needed to have one, so he hasn't conceived of doing it any other way. Inflexibility is his trademark, after all.]
...but. How?