[It's different than when Vriska left, he thinks, because Dirk and Dave had a better relationship and also that was prior to his own friendship with Dave changing. So yeah. He settles to hug him tightly since Dave responds to that kind of thing and also he has no idea what he's supposed to say.]

Dirk was red, right? So things with red undertones probably. Maybe some food. Anything in his house. Things like that.