[ He is genuinely impressed at the nerve! You have to give the kid that. God's tone is neatly polite, a thin skin of stillness over some great and building tension. ]
Did you come around just for a look at the scenery?
[ This is his third time meeting Paul's friend. With each, he has noticed the tenacity, the frankly unhinged pursuit of knowledge— like a boy wedging his fingers through the cracks to some dark cave, prodding for secrets, heedless of the bear that lives inside.
Sometimes his metaphors could use some work. It's a fun little distraction from cataloguing all he might have given away, and what a pain it'll be to manage. He is trying to keep a leash on the feeling that he has been spied upon; strung along through false intimacies; that he might, in fact, be pretty mad about it. ]
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[ He is genuinely impressed at the nerve! You have to give the kid that. God's tone is neatly polite, a thin skin of stillness over some great and building tension. ]
Did you come around just for a look at the scenery?
[ This is his third time meeting Paul's friend. With each, he has noticed the tenacity, the frankly unhinged pursuit of knowledge— like a boy wedging his fingers through the cracks to some dark cave, prodding for secrets, heedless of the bear that lives inside.
Sometimes his metaphors could use some work. It's a fun little distraction from cataloguing all he might have given away, and what a pain it'll be to manage. He is trying to keep a leash on the feeling that he has been spied upon; strung along through false intimacies; that he might, in fact, be pretty mad about it. ]