at her words, dean yielded the tension in his muscles, giving himself the moment to breathe and rethink the entire plan — the one that didn't exist in the first place. he could take her at face value and assume that she was just as lost as he was when he had been resurrected without knowing the reasons behind it ; he could keep her at arms' length and accept the bitter fact that he never truly knew who hanna was, so why would he know anything about her now? — or he could juggle both options at once and see where that road took him... either way, he needed her to cooporate in order for anything to move forward. he stared at her with somber eyes that listened intently to the truth while his bitter mind questioned its validity. " look— " he sighed and spoke with a low, conceding tone, " we both want the same thing; we can agree on that, " he started, " let's just— take this one step at a time and work together to figure this all out. y'think we can do that? " he didn't wait for an answer before he inquired, " what can you tell me about what happened? "