"Thanks," he mumbles. He means it, sincerely. All of this probably sounds stupid and inane to a regular person (a regular person could probably solve all of this in about five minutes), but it's important to him. Hearing that Kurt is proud of him makes him feel like he's actually doing the right thing for once, like maybe if he keeps going in that direction he won't be a total failure like most of the time.

"This kind of stuff was always easier when I was Finn," he adds, a little morosely. It's really, really unfair that he just can't go back to being Finn when there isn't even a Finn here.