I'm trying--god, you're not gonna wanna hear this. [Is that fact, or the fact that his voice shakes the entire time, going to stop him? Of course not.] I'm trying to be better. Get myself right. So it feels deserved. Be worthy of what you did.

[He knows when he talks to her back home, he's just talking to the air, talking out loud, that she can't actually hear him. Or, he figures so, but the hell does he know? To repeat some of those ideas and ideals now feels kind of silly, except now she gets to actually hear it.]

I know that's not how this works. [Being worthy or deserving, like it's a Thor's hammer situation. That they're the last people who will ever judge each other.] Still trying.