[ That pause only makes this whole thing even more awkward, and Trahearne immediately regrets saying it out loud. Almost immediately does he pick up on Ori's panic, and that only makes him panic a little bit in turn. He hangs his head and plasters his face in his hand.

He doesn't know what to say either!!! Otherwise he would have said more!!! ]

I--I've tried. I've tried all manner of things to get them out of my system, but no matter how I feel at the end of the day, it all comes back in dreams.

[ This has to be some kind of torture. He'd been so ready to let go not even two weeks ago, and now he was desperately wishing he could just forget about his commander entirely. Which isn't fair to either of them at all (and kind of cruel). ]

I'm sorry, Ori. If only I'd never shown you that dreamscape in Oz, or been so audacious as to recreate him in it, or...admitted to myself what I did. Then I probably wouldn't have hallucinated him in the cave, which I'm certain led to this...

[ This is all his own doing, he thinks. ]