Image 1: Rutherford and Guz are now crawling through the Jeffries tubes on their way to the impulse field regulator.
Rutherford: So, you have a crush on Tendi? (small text: that's understandable.)
Guz: a CRUSH? WHAT IS THAT?
Rutherford: A--a crush?
Guz: Isn't that what you said?
Rutherford: Yeah, I'm just. Suprised you don't know what that means.
Guz (inset panel): I don't want to hurt Tendi!!
Rutherford (another inset panel): No! No, a crush is when you feel romantic feelings (small text: or more) for someone and you dont know if they reciprocate.

Image 2:
They are climbing down a ladder.
Guz: That doesn't sound right. Romance is a biological function that leads to procreation in allosexual solids, right?
Rutherford: I guess?
Guz: Mellanoid Slimes don't have sexes. If I wanted a child, I could BUD right now in this Jeffries tube.
Rutherford: Well, Mellanoids don't have gender, right?
Guz: They're not... supposed to?
Rutherford: But you do! You could be anything you want but you choose to appear as a girl!
Guz (shyly): ...i don't CHOOSE to be a girl.
Guz (determined): I AM a girl.
Rutherford: My point is even if it's not normal for your species, maybe you DO feel romantic feelings, or something like it, for Tendi.

Image 3:
horizontal tube:
Guz: I dunno. I just. I want to be around her. And I want her to
    want to spend time with me. And I want to talk to her. And I want to...
Rutherford: Sounds like a crush to me!
standing in vertical tube:
Guz: But I don't wanna... you know... procreate with her.
Rutherford: Neither do I! I... I mean... neither would I.
Guz: Well maybe it's not a crush, but a squish.
climbing into next tube:
Rutherford: A squish?
Guz: Y'know. (she pinches her cheek. she has a cheeky smile.) A squish.
Rutherford: Haha! I like that.