I don't know about you, but a month feels like a long-ass time not to be touchin' each other.

[Rex states that matter-of-factly, but his expression does soften, the edges of his lips gaining a tender bend. Is this the part where he tells Mark that he and Eve had waited for two years before trying anything intimate? And, oh god, their first time had been a super disaster.

Mark is definitely shy, but in a way, the older hero understands the flustered behavior. After moving about in space believing that you are undesirable, never being perceived in such a manner, it's hard to embrace the idea that someone may genuinely want to get down and dirty with you.]

Why? Don't think you're ready?

[A puff of air passes through Rex's nostrils.]

Nobody is. Not really, not their first time. But, that's, like, fine! You'll get the hang of it eventually.

'S not rocket science. Well, with dudes. I'd argue that girls are kind of tricky. They don't have all the same bits! So it's a lot more complicated.

[pls not that this is not meant 2 b taken as fact, it is simply a rex splode Opinion]