[ Daniel pulls A Face at the mention of the ice cube. That's for sure. He's an expressive guy, after all, and so there's no way his instinctive reaction of 'nope, nope, nope, thanks' doesn't show up immediately on his face as he shakes his head. ]
Okay, let's just not mention anything anymore about ice. I think I'm fine with not thinking too hard about ice or ice cubes for the rest of the day. [ Especially since he'd truly rather not imagine how badly this could have gone wrong, despite him not consciously having tried to do anything.
He shakes his head, as if to shake off the thought, and then jumps back a tad in the conversation to something else that stood out to him. ]
Do you know how to deal with that? [ At least this time it sounds very much just like an open question, rather than anything laced with sympathy or any other particular emotion. ] Physical fighting?
[ Hey, it's just a topic of interest to Daniel. And he knows that in this sort of place there's truly no telling whether or not someone knows how to fight just by looking at them. ]
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Okay, let's just not mention anything anymore about ice. I think I'm fine with not thinking too hard about ice or ice cubes for the rest of the day. [ Especially since he'd truly rather not imagine how badly this could have gone wrong, despite him not consciously having tried to do anything.
He shakes his head, as if to shake off the thought, and then jumps back a tad in the conversation to something else that stood out to him. ]
Do you know how to deal with that? [ At least this time it sounds very much just like an open question, rather than anything laced with sympathy or any other particular emotion. ] Physical fighting?
[ Hey, it's just a topic of interest to Daniel. And he knows that in this sort of place there's truly no telling whether or not someone knows how to fight just by looking at them. ]