"I certainly think so." Dan directs Elle's chalk marks while threading some needles. "He and Kerrigan both come from this universe that just...takes everything good there is, and makes war out of it. It's awful. And yet they came out of it with some tenderness, and I think that's..."

It makes Dan feel less alone, as someone who went through hell and came out the other side still soft and vulnerable in so many ways.

"Anyway, you mightn't could have noticed, but giving folks things is the way I express affection. And doing things for them. So you can imagine how much I hate being laid up."