And that's where bird-you came from. A timeline that we fucked up and you had to die because of it. [This is kind of pissing him off, frankly.] Why you? Why were you the one who had to become the Time player? Why am I the heir? This goes back to us not having a choice in the game and that is bullshit, too.

[But he's shifting to lean against the headboard and more or less dragging Dave with him, so okay.]

Or the timeline Terezi killed me. Or any other timeline where something didn't go right, because time has a set…something? Like a way things are supposed to go, so we are constantly resetting. That is what the end of the universe was, right? And the scratch was something important.

[He chews his lip.] I remember your planet, I think. Ot at least fighting everything there. I had a different hammer, but there was a giant record and we broke it and then I disappeared but I saw Jade. We were on that ship. That was…before the three year journey? So that was a thing that had to happen.

[He's sort of just babbling to figure this out.] …the thing is. There is a difference between being willing to die and not valuing your life at all, and I am sorry but I kind of value your life a lot? I want you to be my best friend and that means staying here with me as long as you can. Even in dreams. [There's a short huff of a laugh.] Why do we keep meeting in dreams, Dave?