[ Okay wow this is really uncomfortable. Like, yeah, under normal circumstances Dirk wouldn't mind being ~~this close~~ to Jake, but. Uh.
He doesn't pull away for nearly a full minute, at which point the robot shoots out some confetti and, oddly enough, offers them an evaluation of some kind. Ten percent!
And off it goes. The barrier comes down, but Dirk doesn't move away from Jake just yet. ]