"You've seen my mess plenty of times, though," he says, managing to get a little further into the swing of this kind of needling the further they go into familiar territory. 'You're impossible' is a very familiar one by now - usually means Dorian's got no idea how to respond, which always feels like a little bit of a win. "So I would think you would be used to it by now. So it sounds a lot like you're giving up. Weird - I thought you were more stubborn than that."