He sighs against Goro's skin and wriggles a little before he answers, trying to find a way to bring them even closer than they are already. "Yeah. He's being real... you know. Gracious. About everything. But I still."

A small pause, while he debates simply not saying it: If he doesn't give voice to it, Goro can't tell him he's right. "...I still have to say stuff," he says, reluctantly, which is fitting. "Like, that's the whole point of talking. To say stuff."

He sounds like someone's told him to take a swim in a vat of sewage. If the sewage was also boiling, and actually not sewage at all but acid.