[And he very nearly doesn't, feeling guilty that... there's something sort of- happy? For him. But it won't stop hounding him, even as he goes along with it.]

Yeah. They really know how to pull out the welcome wagon... Thollux ith a meth, KK wath hith moirail... I think I'm going to be keeping with him for a while.

He needth thomeone, you know how it ith.