Because outside that, it isn't any of Aster's business what Dan does to his body. He knows why he's getting lectured, but he doesn't know what Aster thinks there is to accomplish here. Dan isn't going to get clean. He doesn't think he can. He doesn't think he could withstand the sobriety, like every moment when he isn't at least a little intoxicated is weight pressing on him from every angle until he cracks and collapses.
But if that's what Aster wants, then Dan's only option is to leave. He wraps his arms tighter around himself and considers that it won't take him more than a few minutes to pack his things, but that will leave so many projects unfinished and that will cut out a part of Dan's life that he realizes only now he's gotten attached to. What a horrible time to have this awful revelation.
"I understand if you want me to get out," he sighs.
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Because outside that, it isn't any of Aster's business what Dan does to his body. He knows why he's getting lectured, but he doesn't know what Aster thinks there is to accomplish here. Dan isn't going to get clean. He doesn't think he can. He doesn't think he could withstand the sobriety, like every moment when he isn't at least a little intoxicated is weight pressing on him from every angle until he cracks and collapses.
But if that's what Aster wants, then Dan's only option is to leave. He wraps his arms tighter around himself and considers that it won't take him more than a few minutes to pack his things, but that will leave so many projects unfinished and that will cut out a part of Dan's life that he realizes only now he's gotten attached to. What a horrible time to have this awful revelation.
"I understand if you want me to get out," he sighs.