[Boy does he ever. And it really is a few minutes of Dirk just sitting there, quiet, trying to make his mind stop chasing itself in spirals. He tries to pull it out, redirect. Refocus and reorient. But fighting against it so much just makes it work, so he focuses, and he breathes, and he listens to Giant Dragon breathing. Eventually, that paces his breathing, too.

Eventually, Dirk comes out with a statement that clearly was worth all that time sitting on it.]

Yeah, okay. You're the authority on your own feelings, so I guess I'll work on believing that. Your regular dosage of pain in the ass queries will not be stoppered.