The things he talks about, all that he's experienced, and it's painful. It's things that, truly, Kyle has taken advantage of all his life. None of those things were more than a day's planning away and many of them happened almost every day. That he hasn't known those things truly hurts.

"I feel like I should make sure you try all the foods you've missed. The ones I grew up on. My mom would be happy to know I was feeding them to someone that never happened. She taught me to make enchiladas and all, but I've usually just eaten carefully for my workout routine." He wonders how much of that is changing with a partner that gladly indulges in rich foods. He can afford to though. Kyle can't.

"Who... If you aren't time traveling into another time and place, whose body do they take over?" He fears he's traveling back into that those things that horrify him and yet he has to know.