Thomas: "Oi..what an evening"

Zpringzia: "Well--I think yoo handald eet MAZTRFULY!"

Zpringzia: "I emagin zat...yoo juzt vant to gotta zleep now..."

Thomas: "'Fraid so, honeypie..."

Zpringzia: "I unnerztand--gootnite, mein bunny preciooz!"

Thomas: "YAWN!"

Thomas: "So...how are you this morning?"

scratch"

Nerva: "I--I don't know, Thomas... right now, I feel fine.. but I kind of feel like lately--"

Nerva: "...I'm just like a little ball batted around in some vicious 'PONG' game of DEBILATATING EMOTIONS!"

Thomas: "Zow. Uh...what do you think THAT'S all about?"

Nerva: "Yeah...I don't rightly know."

Nerva: "How do you handle being in a mental space like that, man? It's rough stuff."

Thomas: "Well--I mean, personally, I kind of got kidnapped & chained up by a physical manifestation of the underlying problem* --but I imagine that wouldn't work for everyone"

Thomas: "Or was that rhetorical?"

Nerva: "No--thank you for sharing--I signed up for a tour-of-duty as a manifestation of a demi-god's will--I think that might have been emblemick of avoidance.."