"I'm afraid I'm the wrong person to explain it. Were my partner here, he might be able to - despite his protestations, he understands the emotional connections between 'normal' people better than he thinks."

It's dry and faintly fond, before he shrugs. "However, from my perspective, your feelings on the issue are the unexpected ones. I had no reason to think you'd hate the man just by looking at you."

So forget 'twice,' or 'with an extra audience.' The calculations he was running about Hard Haru Conversations were multiplicative, not additive.