[Dave seems kind of annoyed his older self is being so easy-going about all this but he can't maintain it very well when older Dave is So Chill.

He seems to have hit a snag though, biting his lip in frustration and glances at Kaito, but Older Dave prompts him.]

You were doing a couple things with the needlepoint metaphor.

[And tiny Dave sort of, clicks back on message, back to mumble mode]

Cooperate and handle abstract metaphysics that were never meant to be actually explicable.

Does this mean I have to start doing needlepoint.