"Brains are stupid," Rosario conceded. This was a thing you learned over and over in med school. TV and movies told you that the brain was an ultra-powerful supercomputer, advanced beyond all imagining. Biology said that it was an idiot hunk of meat that still got confused by vehicular motion and wasn't sure if that thing you were looking at was a guy with a knife or just a weird shadow. Human brains were so dumb, they kept making gods, like actually willing things into existence, and they hadn't even worked out they were doing it.
"Mine's buggin' over a stupid date. And I like Halloween, I'm not like a— a Halloween Grinch." She'd shifted just a little so she could see his face, so he could see hers, irrationally anxious for him to believe this. "I like scary movies. And the decorations, and, and I'm not really a costume person but I can get on board with a group thing..." Rosario grimaced, ducked her head again. "Last year was just messed up, it was... it was messed up. And I thought I was okay with it now, but today I'm..." giving up on words, she mimed a frustrated flailing gesture by the side of her head.