"Overly dramatic? I?" He doesn't try to hold an affronted expression more than a few seconds. "Stubbornness on your part sounds far more likely." He offers it sagely. It's rare he finds himself outright fighting laughter, yet here he is.

"We'll be the most thorough." Likely more than once and likely long after the opening takes away the newness.

He decides the rest of what he wished to broach can wait for another time. They're getting close enough to torpor to feel as though they might not get through the conversation before it hits. He doesn't want that kind of interruption for this. "If I lost you tomorrow, in the end I'd still be left with more than regrets if I could make it through the loss." He feels no certainty in that.