He could have said anything really - my what an excellent throw, two skips - and Maxwell would have known. Simply from the silence.
Simply in the way his face tightened and twisted, anger to fight tears.
He wanted to apologize. Wanted to take it back. Wanted to pretend he hadn't heard it.
He'd guessed there was something, would have had to have been blind and deaf not too, but he hadn't known... Or perhaps he simply hadn't wanted to. And they'd known that as well.
Had known this, here, would happen.
His eyes closed, Adam's apple lurching hard in his throat as he struggled to swallow the knot that had suddenly formed there.
"I'll give them credit," he murmured finally, knowing he had to say something. Anything. "I wouldn't have thought there were any new forms of cruelty left to discover."
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He could have said anything really - my what an excellent throw, two skips - and Maxwell would have known. Simply from the silence.
Simply in the way his face tightened and twisted, anger to fight tears.
He wanted to apologize. Wanted to take it back. Wanted to pretend he hadn't heard it.
He'd guessed there was something, would have had to have been blind and deaf not too, but he hadn't known... Or perhaps he simply hadn't wanted to. And they'd known that as well.
Had known this, here, would happen.
His eyes closed, Adam's apple lurching hard in his throat as he struggled to swallow the knot that had suddenly formed there.
"I'll give them credit," he murmured finally, knowing he had to say something. Anything. "I wouldn't have thought there were any new forms of cruelty left to discover."