"Drake is fine. None of this has anything to do with Drake."

Drake has done everything he promised, and K had been hoping to have plenty of time to just try to adjust and see the shape of how life could be, the way everyone keeps insisting it can be.

"If it were rational, there wouldn't be a problem. But it's not, and I - when all the rest of it wasn't enough on its own, I'd come back to what you said. To not being alone in it." K doesn't talk half as much as other people, but when he does it's in more or less smooth, complete thoughts. This is anything but. This is halting and hesitant and just shy of disjointed.

All because of this: "That was... so important to me."