we were listening to a memory called empire while cooking dinner today, and we hit pause and i curled up in my chair when ryan started serving everything into bowls. and then he calls to me from the kitchen —
- Do you want to listen to something else, Mahit?
and I, predictably, was staggered by the psychic implications, before realizing the thing he actually asked is "do you want to listen to something else while we eat?", a much more straightforward question