[Vax didn't ask for anecdotes on the choking, so Kira doesn't feel a pressing need for the story behind it--if he even assumes there is one. Honest communication is hard enough sometimes without fraught explanations.]

[Not that he wouldn't hear them out; part of his job had always been to just listen.]

Listen, I will talk up all kinds of shit in the bedroom, but most of it's just talk unless you ask for it. [Recalling another part of that talk, he decides to clarify.] Same for any uh, possessiveness that came through? I just thought that was part of the play, I won't do it again. I think we were both going kind of fast.