[ He falls quiet, eyebrows rising as she speaks. A second or two, he keeps his silence, blinking, because— ]
... I think that’s the nicest thing I’ve ever heard you say to me.
[ Well, no, that’s not true—
(“He’s about the only family I have.”
“No, he wasn’t.”)
—but it’s definitely the nicest thing she’s said to him that wasn’t prompted by him going through some sort of traumatic experience and cutting the last tenuous ties with the shitty folks who raised him and kind of sort of bothered to give him the time of day, when the fancy struck.
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... I think that’s the nicest thing I’ve ever heard you say to me.
[ Well, no, that’s not true—
(“He’s about the only family I have.”
“No, he wasn’t.”)
—but it’s definitely the nicest thing she’s said to him that wasn’t prompted by him going through some sort of traumatic experience and cutting the last tenuous ties with the shitty folks who raised him and kind of sort of bothered to give him the time of day, when the fancy struck.
But that’s just splitting hairs. ]