[ If he didn't know her, he might be worried about how she keeps looking away from him, seemingly looking anywhere but at him. He knows that Jesse is someone who needs time to think, time to talk to Polaris. It isn't her shutting him out, but if it was, well, he'd say she's allowed to. How many times did he shut her out of things, either in the story or in the loops or both? ]

The Oldest House can help with that, right? [ Not the house itself but the people inside it... the people who work there. ] It's one thing to say I'm the master of many worlds and another to really know what the hell that even means. Maybe I'm not the master of anything. [ He doesn't feel like he is, anyway. ]

I think that you should get to have your wants met, though. [ He looks back on his own life and thinks that he had it pretty good before the Dark Presence got in the way and started creeping into everything. As far as he's concerned, it's Jesse's turn now, and if that means that he makes meeting her needs his priority, then that's what he'll do.

As for her laying on top of him, he'd never get tired of it. ]

We talked. I think he was confused, maybe even a little angry, not that I can blame him. All I wanted was for him to see what he was missing. What I thought he was doing wrong. [ Alan rolls his eyes at himself. ] It sounds arrogant when I say it like that, because- well, because I know I've messed up too.