[...Silver stops for a moment and looks... Genuinely confused. Isn't that obvious? He...
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He never explained any of that, did he? Of course he didn't, why would he? That goes against what he was trying to do in the first place. Toushiro was too young to deal with stuff like that, too. Not that this was any better. And then there's Elda, and... Well, that doesn't matter anymore, does it? What does matter is the kind of answer he's going to give him. If he's flippant, that might really screw his chances. If he's honest, that's leaving himself entirely too exposed.]
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He never explained any of that, did he? Of course he didn't, why would he? That goes against what he was trying to do in the first place. Toushiro was too young to deal with stuff like that, too. Not that this was any better. And then there's Elda, and... Well, that doesn't matter anymore, does it? What does matter is the kind of answer he's going to give him. If he's flippant, that might really screw his chances. If he's honest, that's leaving himself entirely too exposed.]