[ Ezell's used to the empathy headaches at this point. He's engaged to perhaps the most volatile man in the Grove, after all. Well, maybe he has some competition with Add here now. He tightens the strap of his shotgun around his shoulder so he doesn't feel obligated to point it at Add (it's not loaded with real shells) and frowns at Add. ]

If you wanted me, or anyone else, to mind their own business, you would not have been cruel and hostile to Ain on a public chat with everyone to watch. And what exactly do you want me to tell him to get over? "Oh, that guy you care so deeply about and have been trying so very hard to reconnect with since seeing him again and were the most happy I've felt after seeing him? Yeah, just forget about him." Will that work? Do you think telling him to get over it will make him do that, or just make him feel worse? Is that what you want? For him to feel awful? If so, congratulations, Add! You've very successfully done so! Bravo!

I don't care if you apologize or not. I'm not here to make you do that. I'm just here to ask you if you really ever considered him - even disregarding Ain's romantic advances - even a friend at all. I think he deserves to know that much if you don't. And if so, then why would you ever treat someone you care about that way?

[ Ezell is... mad, too. He won't stick up for himself. He's pretty much a crybaby when it comes to that. But for those he loves? Yeah, no, he'd go to war for them. ]