I agree. I am also quite done with failing. I have had quite enough of it in my life, but it is ever so much more frustrating when you do not know why you have failed at something.

[Not that having the reason would necessarily make you feel better. Certainly hadn’t for him.

As for the distraction, despite how much he’s been flirting, he does not realize how what’s he’s written could be read. Probably because he’s trying not to flirt and failing. Also because casual sex isn’t a strange thing to him. Mostly, if he finds someone attractive and they are attracted to him then he rarely says no. Of course, nothing like that has happened to him in quite some time.]

Yes, you know. If you would like take your mind off of missing your young one, we could, I don’t know, grab some tea? Have a chat? Whatever you would like to do to socialize?

[Okay, so maybe he wouldn’t mind a more than a fling with Hob. He can’t let himself think that way though. It would be too hard to go back to the tree if he gave into those desires.]