[Well, damn, there goes that sort of hope he had held in his chest.]

Was gonna say... if you have something that far down in ya, maybe it's like, touched your soul or somethin'? And then if you still had 'em with you, you could summon one and see what it looked like. Since they're like... swimmin' in the sea of your heart or some bullshit like that.

[Yeah, some bullshit like that.

He stretches his legs out in front of him, until he settles for hunching and bending with that familiar absolute shit-tier posture.]

Tch, Christmas Eve. Dude, that was... that was sure somethin' else.