[Seems hard, tbh. Also wow, that's horrific. After a beat, carefully dry—]
Really paying it forward.
[But he'll go on and take the second chance at bait now that she's laid it out for him.]
Territory?
[Mostly a leading question. He knows that she's got some kind of job she's supposed to be doing, somehow. But he'd never gotten around to prying about just how it (apparently painfully???) works. Didn't really ever seem the time.]
no subject
Really paying it forward.
[But he'll go on and take the second chance at bait now that she's laid it out for him.]
Territory?
[Mostly a leading question. He knows that she's got some kind of job she's supposed to be doing, somehow. But he'd never gotten around to prying about just how it (apparently painfully???) works. Didn't really ever seem the time.]