"It can help, yeah." He nods, "You can't just know a person completely until you've spent time with them." And sure yeah he's spent plenty of time with Sizhui here on the train, but not in the context of a relationship. Sure those false memories and what they did because of them may count as dating, but he'd rather do that without that pretext behind it.

Just them as they are here. Apparently that's a no go for the Lans though.

"Guess it's like... rather wade into an ocean first before diving into the middle of it, right?" Does that sound smart. It felt smart.