[He answers after a pause in which he discovers that actually not having eaten since breakfast means he is hungry. Enough not to mind cold Thai, although he'll be sorry for putting her through it when his brain connects the smell in the apartment to the fact that she must, by now, have expected to have been eating it alone.
Which it does - now. He moves far enough into the living room to keep her within his eyeline, through the door, and suddenly feels stricken.]
Sorry I'm late. [There would be time to think of a good reason if he hadn't slowed his own mind with deliberate purpose. For a moment he turns over the words there was this girl.] There was... what's that?
[From her vantage point, all she'll see is him dropping to a crouch beside a chair.]
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[He answers after a pause in which he discovers that actually not having eaten since breakfast means he is hungry. Enough not to mind cold Thai, although he'll be sorry for putting her through it when his brain connects the smell in the apartment to the fact that she must, by now, have expected to have been eating it alone.
Which it does - now. He moves far enough into the living room to keep her within his eyeline, through the door, and suddenly feels stricken.]
Sorry I'm late. [There would be time to think of a good reason if he hadn't slowed his own mind with deliberate purpose. For a moment he turns over the words there was this girl.] There was... what's that?
[From her vantage point, all she'll see is him dropping to a crouch beside a chair.]