[ Since your gaze has moved to the windows and the flickering fireflies beyond it, his gaze has turned towards you. He belatedly remembers that he has the pipe, and could certainly afford to take another good drag in a last ditch attempt to settle down.
It doesn't really work, but it did, at least, give him an excuse to look away again before he could wonder, for too long, why you weren't asking him about how he's shut himself off from his Wardens for the moment. You are one of them. You would have felt it.
Maybe he already knows the answer. Even then, though, it doesn't make him any more comfortable. ]
They are. [ Now he's going to reach into his coat for his tablet. ] We need to go over some details, if you're all right with humoring me with some work.
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It doesn't really work, but it did, at least, give him an excuse to look away again before he could wonder, for too long, why you weren't asking him about how he's shut himself off from his Wardens for the moment. You are one of them. You would have felt it.
Maybe he already knows the answer. Even then, though, it doesn't make him any more comfortable. ]
They are. [ Now he's going to reach into his coat for his tablet. ] We need to go over some details, if you're all right with humoring me with some work.