Yeah, well. You were the only one making any sense anyway. There wasn't any reason not to believe you.
[There's this awkward moment where they're both standing around and no one takes the chair, and Stan finally moves to a different piece of furniture in the room - a little table with a couple of chairs in the corner. They're not good chairs for sleeping in, but they're good for a midnight chit-chat, which is apparently what's going to happen.]
You don't gotta apologize - Odile got away from me too. But hey, I'm glad she didn't wind up, y'know. Murdering you? ...Enough people died for one day as it is.
[It's the closest he gets to mentioning his own grief. He's been trying to keep it contained, since the odds are still good that Dipper will come back as a squid and everything will be fine, but that doesn't mean the whole thing doesn't still hurt - especially with the knowledge that someone murdered Dipper on purpose. But for now, he'll just bury that.]
--Plus if you hadn't wound up fighting that knockoff in the hall, I would've wound up going on a wild goose chase all day! I knew it was someone in the room, but we were still trying to figure out who. You basically brought the culprit right to us!
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[There's this awkward moment where they're both standing around and no one takes the chair, and Stan finally moves to a different piece of furniture in the room - a little table with a couple of chairs in the corner. They're not good chairs for sleeping in, but they're good for a midnight chit-chat, which is apparently what's going to happen.]
You don't gotta apologize - Odile got away from me too. But hey, I'm glad she didn't wind up, y'know. Murdering you? ...Enough people died for one day as it is.
[It's the closest he gets to mentioning his own grief. He's been trying to keep it contained, since the odds are still good that Dipper will come back as a squid and everything will be fine, but that doesn't mean the whole thing doesn't still hurt - especially with the knowledge that someone murdered Dipper on purpose. But for now, he'll just bury that.]
--Plus if you hadn't wound up fighting that knockoff in the hall, I would've wound up going on a wild goose chase all day! I knew it was someone in the room, but we were still trying to figure out who. You basically brought the culprit right to us!