[ There's a surreality to all this that doesn't stick. He's not quite here, not quite there, a man between two men and two worlds. The sense that he's missing something, that there's an understanding outside of his reach— forgotten knowledge, rather than knowledge never acquired.
Stephen stands and watches the patient stare into his drink, suspended in another kind of uncertainty, one harder earned. He doesn't drink either. There's nothing in that cup designed to make things clearer. ]
Mm? [ A certain shift to the attitude here - caution, bordering on concern. Is that it? Maybe remorse. ] What is it?
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Stephen stands and watches the patient stare into his drink, suspended in another kind of uncertainty, one harder earned. He doesn't drink either. There's nothing in that cup designed to make things clearer. ]
Mm? [ A certain shift to the attitude here - caution, bordering on concern. Is that it? Maybe remorse. ] What is it?