"Yeah, look, when I say nice work if you can get it about being a kept man," is a tease, but also it's not like he's wrong about Gwenaëlle being Cosmia's type on paper.

"So. I dumped her, but then we got back together and we were trying to work the problem of my illness together at Dyad, the company she was working for. Mixed successes there, fully. But the whole reason I brought up Delphine and this long-ass story is that at one point, she got promoted in Dyad to a point where she could really do a lot of good for all of us clones as a whole. But she broke it off with me, because she said she felt like she couldn't love us all equally the way I asked her to if she was also with me and that the greater good was more important." Cosima's not a shrinking flower normally, but the flow of conversation is distinctly easier now. Even if the topic isn't, quite.

"So I tried to go on the dating apps."