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mmm, pancakes

Andi is up first again the next morning. She pads downstairs.

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"Yeah," he says. "And maybe it'll be that I don't care, I don't guarantee I'm gonna care about every single thing you think I should for the rest of forever, but maybe it'll be that I was too busy being wrecked about something to notice."

"Are you still? Wrecked?"

He smiles crookedly. "Little bit, yeah. Going to talk to Ax was - not trivial."

"I couldn't tell that either."

"I know. That's kind of a thing with me. When I'm scared and living in my head like that, I'm not gonna let anybody know until I've got through it a little. Because it feels safer that way, you know?"

"I guess? I don't know, I don't have a thing like that."

"Yeah," he says, "that makes sense."

"Well, you - talked to him anyway, which was good, the house is still standing, you have not been slain in a tail-blade duel, etcetera."

Trouble laughs. "Yeah, that's a start."

Bella grabs her notebook. She writes something down.

"Mm?"

"Loosely - that there is room for more charitable explanations around you than I briefly believed."

"Yeah, okay."

"Is there anything else you wanted to talk about?"

He shrugs. "Nah."

"Okay. Thanks for clearing this up."

"You're welcome."

Bella writes inscrutably.

This time he doesn't ask. He just sits there for a moment longer, and then gets up and wanders off.

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