>But yeah.
DIRK: But yeah. Don't worry about any of that. Take it easy.
DIRK: Don't ask why things keep turning into guns. That's just reality being quirky and fun at you.
DIRK: Just keep playing page-in-peril games with Jake and giving Jane irony lessons that are themselves a piece of performative irony theater and pretending to do big-kid shit with Roxy when you know good and goddamn well none of us are runnin' the show here. Keep staying up late texting Dave hoping desperately that you can keep proving yourself to him while his star only rises. Show up for holidays and be gracious to the weirdoes who keep praying over you.
DIRK: Don't worry about anything, just let your blade rust in its sheath because of some vague anxieties you had about yourself years ago, and just keep pretending like nothing will ever change.
DIRK: Just keep pretending. And when it happens, say you never saw it coming.
DIRK: ...???
