[ This time it’s rhetorical, with his foot nudging By’s. A friendly little kick, nothing lingering, because they were friends yesterday, and they’ll be friends tomorrow, and he doesn’t take any pleasure in making Byerly fumble around for solid footing on the other side of the table. ]
I suppose it could be, if you mean exactly as we have been. That is a lot to ask of a man. Some occasional arguing and retching would be fine, and the bootlaces might have had potential under other circumstances, but...
[ Still buying time. Would he want to continue? Something is better than nothing, as they say, until something is a decaying rope bridge over a canyon that doesn’t hold after all, when you could have just taken the long way around, or a wounded limb rotting and taking the whole body with it when it might have just been amputated.
He tilts his head, where it’s balanced in his head, to give Byerly a look, bewildered and warm. He’s not trying to make him squirm for sport. ]
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[ This time it’s rhetorical, with his foot nudging By’s. A friendly little kick, nothing lingering, because they were friends yesterday, and they’ll be friends tomorrow, and he doesn’t take any pleasure in making Byerly fumble around for solid footing on the other side of the table. ]
I suppose it could be, if you mean exactly as we have been. That is a lot to ask of a man. Some occasional arguing and retching would be fine, and the bootlaces might have had potential under other circumstances, but...
[ Still buying time. Would he want to continue? Something is better than nothing, as they say, until something is a decaying rope bridge over a canyon that doesn’t hold after all, when you could have just taken the long way around, or a wounded limb rotting and taking the whole body with it when it might have just been amputated.
He tilts his head, where it’s balanced in his head, to give Byerly a look, bewildered and warm. He’s not trying to make him squirm for sport. ]
Did you dress up for this?