[He takes a few moments to consider that offer, though it doesn't help much. This is an entirely new situation to him - even Finn's memories can't help - that he has no idea whether space would help. For all he knows it could, it could help him calm down and sort out his feelings.

... But then there's that need to cling, and despite what Varian says there's the instinctive fear of being abandoned. Having to suffer through that, even if it's only a paranoid possibility in his head, seems worse than everything else, honestly.]

I don't know. At this point it'd probably feel weirder if you did. Pretty sure I'd just miss you.

[And wind up feeling even worse, so whatever he can do to mitigate that seems like the best plan. That doesn't mean the same applies to Varian though, and he can imagine 'needing time' also means 'needing space.']

... What about you?