To Karl, it sounded more like he was trying to bring up the topic without actually bringing it up and he really didn't know what Alyssa was trying to approach it as, but it didn't seem like they were on the same page.
In other words, he probably wasn't making sense, jumping from one thing to another.
Things weren't going to end well if the machine-god of their partnership was the one trying to make a conversation work. But he had came up here for a reason, the same one that he stayed in Texas for and was standing right in front of.
"I asked you before if we were okay. You said that we were. But that was before taking a bullet for me, and before I hauled your ass back through that hospital."
Whether or not it was because the crowd was growing due to the oncoming end of the year, Karl had taken a step forward towards her.