[Dave frowns, opens his mouth, shuts it without saying anything--a Christmas miracle, or an oddity, anyway--and resettles in their seat again, like getting comfier might bring the cards' meaning into focus.

Eventually he sighs.]

I think. I don't totally understand that one.

[Babe, tasukete.]

I get the concept, but I don't know how to apply it in our case. Think of the long-term... beyond safety?

[He'd been thinking of the future--their future--before they'd arrived here, of course, but that's. Complicated, now.]