"You said it yourself. Was. I had to have a new one. Now completely, guess I'm starting over again." It's entirely deadpan, and to most there would be little there to show it was humor, but to him it's positively joking time. For a moment. For that moment because it made things easier to face what he's said and how she reacts to it.

And it's also not untrue. Already he's considering what he's going to do here and what his plans are for this place and every moment of this talk makes him both more settled and uncertain about what he'll be doing.

"I worked to give you your freedom so you could have what you wanted. Not to make you mine." That much was easy to say. The rest, that if she chose to be, that would be something else.