Sometimes David wondered what made female Jokers so childlike all the time - he just didn't understand what the cause of it might be. But if they were as broken as he was...

Well. Childishness might just be their own kind of neutral mask?

"I'll sleep where I sleep," and let the Deck control things just as much as it always seemed to anyway. Letting himself get dragged off after her exuberance was almost amusing, and he let himself fall into it the way he was everything else.

He wasn't King - a reminder reminder reminder - it didn't matter how his emotions swayed him. "A bridge, by the water. New days, hm?"