it can start as the emotional whump and digress into violence via ‘wellstone would be better without you. I will now act on this’.

Evil!Dax may try to force him into breaking through to ruin Dax’s background ‘well I’m largely safe from being hijacked’ notion that’s keeping Dax so comfortable with Alec too…

p.s. maybe relevantly we could backtag that ‘you’re welcome to keep trying’ post-waiter trust olive branch too if you have any interest [chinhands]. or figure out how it went!