"Can I talk to him if he comes?" he asks, before falling utterly silent. What a vague and useless sentence!! He raises his eyebrows significantly, giving her a chance to maybe elaborate on what the fuck she just said.

She doesn't. Of course she doesn't. He grumbles to himself, reaching up to rub his brow. "Who is the someone? And who is us? What was the reminder?" he drones, listing the questions off just to see how far he'll get. By the end of it, he's frustrated himself all over again to the point that he snaps, "Was any of that real??"