...Yeah. Comin' here, I thought I had my questions all lined up. But now that we're actually talkin', it's a totally different story.

[...]

I think we deserve a pass, considerin' neither of us should be talkin' ta each other in the first place.

[But he doesn't want to just let heavy silence creep in, or leave and never speak of this again. As much as continuing to avoid this sounds great, they've come way too far now.]

All right, let's start with this. Has your blastia given ya physical problems? I joke about bein' old and tired, but this thing really does knock the wind outta me if I exert myself too much.

[it's not about their past lives, about what Alexei did. It's about them, as they are now. Their current struggles.]