[it's not hard to piece together what the rest of that would've been. but it's also pretty easy to know that pointing it out would be stupid, so instead Hazel just keeps talking like she had no idea that mumbling was supposed to be a word.]

Those preset high scores are always bullshit, so it's probably better that I'm gonna clock in something that's an actual challenge. It's a better distraction like that.

[and that'll be important for when he's mentally repaired himself enough to give a shit about anything but wallowing. half the time distractions are the only way Hazel keeps herself in one piece.]