( The struggle of having friends indeed. For what it's worth, he appreciates the honesty. He's been a little siloed within himself, a little disconnected. It doesn't help that they don't really get any free time, most of what he spends with Nate is around bedtime. There's him, there's Lance, and that's it. Not enough time to build any new connections, and not enough drive to bother, because... Well, see: attachment issues.

This weirdly helps. Maybe reinforces the fact that he's not actually alone. )

Is there anything I can do to help? Hugs, drugs, twenty foot sex robot? Blatantly manipulate you into actually talking about it even though you don't want to because we both know it would help, and you're way too good at this for me to bother actually trying to be subtle?