[It took a lot of effort for Edward to get here and the second Oswald asks that, the panic is back, and all he wants is to immediately take it back. Pretend this conversation never happened, walk out the door, maybe fake his death - it could work, maybe! - but...
He swallows and tries to steel himself. No backing down. He already said the words, so it's too late now. It's scary. But...
Not because he didn't mean it.]
Yes.
[There's the hard part out of the way.]
I mean, I... As I said, my experience in this area is lacking, to put it extremely lightly, and it's new to me, I always sort of thought love wasn't really real or at the very least I wasn't capable of it, but given new evidence and the fact that I don't know what else this could possibly be, I have to think that--
[He's rambling.
...He might not know how to stop.
You should probably say something and snap him out of it, Ozzy.]
Re: 2/2
He swallows and tries to steel himself. No backing down. He already said the words, so it's too late now. It's scary. But...
Not because he didn't mean it.]
Yes.
[There's the hard part out of the way.]
I mean, I... As I said, my experience in this area is lacking, to put it extremely lightly, and it's new to me, I always sort of thought love wasn't really real or at the very least I wasn't capable of it, but given new evidence and the fact that I don't know what else this could possibly be, I have to think that--
[He's rambling.
...He might not know how to stop.
You should probably say something and snap him out of it, Ozzy.]