P.S. It’s polite when you’re asked a “yes or no” type question to give one of those in your answer. Expound if you must, but a direct answer is helpful. Telling someone they should just put things together on their own and continue obliquely is rather the opposite of polite.
Very often what passes for "dialogue" hereabouts is: one guy serves the tennis ball, the other guy watches it indifferently as it sails over the net and bounces out of the court, then gets his own ball out of his pocket and serves back. Then eventually they whistle up their pals to play doubles (or triples), ending up with half a dozen balls sailing and bouncing: nice in its way, but it's no tennis match.
P.S. I like your writing. I may steal some...:o)