[For a moment, he stills, eyes going to Maruki's and-
Finding them there, already staring at him. Searching, like he knows something far too much. Like he's seeking an answer.
There's no way, and yet...]
I'd be from eight months later, then, yes. That seems like the way it works. [He swallows past the tightness in his throat, the instinctive need to swallow it down and keep it away, hidden, hidden-] If what I'm about to ask doesn't mean anything to you, it's something you don't need to worry about. But...
[It feels freeing. It feels like the deepest sort of betrayal. It's stepping onto a floor that isn't there, but believing that cognition will make it so.]
On that day... Did you see anything unusual in Tokyo?
[One way or another, this will answer something he wants to know. Not the accumulation of knowledge, though that's just as important.
But he'll know for sure, just how deep "his" trust for this man goes.]
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Finding them there, already staring at him. Searching, like he knows something far too much. Like he's seeking an answer.
There's no way, and yet...]
I'd be from eight months later, then, yes. That seems like the way it works. [He swallows past the tightness in his throat, the instinctive need to swallow it down and keep it away, hidden, hidden-] If what I'm about to ask doesn't mean anything to you, it's something you don't need to worry about. But...
[It feels freeing. It feels like the deepest sort of betrayal. It's stepping onto a floor that isn't there, but believing that cognition will make it so.]
On that day... Did you see anything unusual in Tokyo?
[One way or another, this will answer something he wants to know. Not the accumulation of knowledge, though that's just as important.
But he'll know for sure, just how deep "his" trust for this man goes.]