[It's mostly expressionless, a bit dazed, given that he hasn't even fully processed the information -- it's kind of difficult, when someone you just met five minutes ago drops that on you, and also you've got the perfectly reasonable we just held that funeral a few days ago, this stranger is making things up warring with the terribly hopeful it figures that damn guy escaped, it's him, after all all over your insides.
He takes one breath. Two. The few Palai out here continue to stare at them as they pass, Julius continues to be there and not a statue, the sky continues to be ocean for some reason, and... time flows again.
In fact, it slams into fast forward because suddenly there are way too many things he needs to know. Why. How. What -- there are so many things he needs to do, back home, but if this is one of them, then. Is it? He doesn't know.]
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Lindow... Lindow's okay?
[It's mostly expressionless, a bit dazed, given that he hasn't even fully processed the information -- it's kind of difficult, when someone you just met five minutes ago drops that on you, and also you've got the perfectly reasonable we just held that funeral a few days ago, this stranger is making things up warring with the terribly hopeful it figures that damn guy escaped, it's him, after all all over your insides.
He takes one breath. Two. The few Palai out here continue to stare at them as they pass, Julius continues to be there and not a statue, the sky continues to be ocean for some reason, and... time flows again.
In fact, it slams into fast forward because suddenly there are way too many things he needs to know. Why. How. What -- there are so many things he needs to do, back home, but if this is one of them, then. Is it? He doesn't know.]