Startled, Wade's eyes jerk to her face and then he quickly looks away. Maybe this was why Jen was such a fascination for him. Calling it a "crush" was probably way too much of an oversimplification. Maybe it wasn't even a crush, but just... She saw him. And as unnerving as that was, it was nice. It was everything he wanted. But it was also everything he was utterly terrified of. Being seen meant someone knew just what a piece of shit he was, like for real, on the inside, underneath all the wacky fun.

"I know exactly who I am." A lie. He had no idea which version of himself he was, but that wasn't something he wanted to say out loud lest he lose his own mask. He never knew which version of himself was the real one. There were so many stories, some horrible, some great, some in between. In some, he had daughters. In some, he had a wife. In at least one he slept with a space hippo and that was a whole thing.

But Jen knew the lie and he knew she knew and that was the point.

He looked at the Scrywatch. "I don't think I have the power to influence it. I tried to kill a little guardian earlier just to see if I could and it just zapped me here. Before I could even finish the title of that prompt option. I think they have their own fourth wall powers. I just think it might be...confused. There's so many versions of my truth, and I access them all, all the time."

Wade looks up. "But I do listen to you. Whenever you speak. I listen."