[At the mention of 'no one was interrupting' Paul's smile quirks higher, a little more wry.]
I remember that, when I first came here. All the uninterrupted time. It was quiet. Not like -
[He looks around the room, bustling with people beginning to get into a kind of relaxation he's never seen so many near-strangers willing to engage in - a kind of relaxation he's never indulged in himself, for a variety of reasons that don't matter the same way here. (Sometimes, he wonders if they ever mattered, but that's a childish thought to have on your seventeenth birthday.)]
- although, I still do have more time of my own than I used to. I hope that you do too. And as for being very surprised, I'd like to say otherwise, but - yes. Although, in self-defense, I usually don't expect conspiracies against me to be so pleasant.
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I remember that, when I first came here. All the uninterrupted time. It was quiet. Not like -
[He looks around the room, bustling with people beginning to get into a kind of relaxation he's never seen so many near-strangers willing to engage in - a kind of relaxation he's never indulged in himself, for a variety of reasons that don't matter the same way here. (Sometimes, he wonders if they ever mattered, but that's a childish thought to have on your seventeenth birthday.)]
- although, I still do have more time of my own than I used to. I hope that you do too. And as for being very surprised, I'd like to say otherwise, but - yes. Although, in self-defense, I usually don't expect conspiracies against me to be so pleasant.