Jake Googles it. "No, it's four." He blinks at the page. "Unless you start counting from the three in which case it is seven. Uh. Two hundred and third, fifteen hundredth, seven hundred and forty seventh?"

"Uh, three, four, nine?"

"No, it's four... five... and zero. So much for that."

"Sad.

"I want to know whether you would feel conflicted about touching my hair some more."

"...did you like miss the part where I was trying to gently turn you down and tell you it's a very bad idea for you to be in love with me?"

"No, I just wasn't sure if that would affect hair touching."

"I mean, I—selfishly—enjoyed it? But I thought you might not? I don't know I've never been in love but I hear it's not great to do that without reciprocation but if you're fine you're fine??" What is going on here.

"I am," he hums, "magically fine right now.  If you want me to introspect on how I'll feel about it later I can try that."

"I would like to not do things right now that would feel nice and fine but which would later on make you feel worse than if we hadn't done them. It'd feel like—taking advantage of you in an altered state of consciousness. So yes I guess?"

"I am definitely in an altered state of consciousness...  Ummm.  Probably I'll be very upset.  Maybe not more about that than everything else.......  Also I somewhat don't believe you.  In the same way I recognized your name."

"You... don't believe me about what?"

"I'm not really sure...  I believe you about your problems, but maybe not about—how they are likely to affect me.  Or something.  I don't know if this is a trustworthy feeling."

"Uh... What? What problems would affect you?"

"Your baggage."

"...okay... Wait are you saying that like, you think I shouldn't let my baggage hold you back from dating me or something, or—"

"The opposite.  You from me."

Blink.

He opens his mouth to say "Jeremy I don't love you," but what comes out instead is "Jeremy we've only known each other for three days," which is pretty much the same thing when you think about it.

He's never had someone confess to him before!!!! He doesn't like it!!!!!! Under normal circumstances he thinks he'd be running for the hills!!!!!!!!!

"I agreeeee.  ....I think it would be really good to have sex under this spell because I think it solves almost all of the problems I had with the first time we tried it.  But I do have the presence of mind to recognize that it would be an obviously bad idea to attempt that tonight."

"...well you tell me! Does this spell make you more likely to believe me that I literally would not have cared and would have greatly enjoyed it if you had used my body like a sex toy for the duration of the possession? You're the one whose emotions are on the line, not me, I'll follow your lead."

"It would be an obviously bad idea tonight and I don't want to, although if you did you could get me to go along with it.  It feels like more exciting things have happened in the past three days than in the preceding ten years and if even more do I will handle it poorly.  ...I'm still thinking about whether I'm more likely to believe you on that.  Maybe."

"I don't want to if you don't want to, so we're good."

"...Maybe it's kind of like the idea of you touching my insides."

"—what?"

"It's like, if you felt that it was really gross I would feel really bad about the idea of you trying and really bad about myself in relation to that.  And if the thing that happened happened then I would feel really embarrassed about suggesting the idea, like I did.  But if you had been into it, and had like, tried to run your fingers along the inside of my ribs and looked up at me with awe, I think I would have felt really nice and warm inside about that even though it was ectoplasmically uncomfortable.  ...You kind of did something like that with the arm, is why I started imagining this even though now I don't think you would do that.  ........I think the spell might incline me towards framings that cause me to reveal things about myself that I don't normally want to tell you but think you might want to know.  So I don't know if it's really the same, but maybe my point is, is it true for you that there's something there that's about my reaction to you instead of anything you're directly experiencing?"

"...that was a very long sentence and I'm ESL but I'm going to guess that yes? If I understood it right?"