He pauses with the fork halfway to his mouth and watches the whole thing. It all goes very fast, and he blinks as the milk carton falls, and actually jumps a little at the shattering of glass. Ah ...
He knew there was something very not right.
(He's not really right either, right now. Though he is very good at pretending to be, because apathy is his general state of things, and a little bit more won't necessarily alert anyone who doesn't know him really well. Milly's still a new friend. She probably can't tell.)
The fork clinks when he puts it down, and stands up. Without a word, he steps around the table and croaches down beside her, picking up the shattered pieces of glass. ]
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He pauses with the fork halfway to his mouth and watches the whole thing. It all goes very fast, and he blinks as the milk carton falls, and actually jumps a little at the shattering of glass. Ah ...
He knew there was something very not right.
(He's not really right either, right now. Though he is very good at pretending to be, because apathy is his general state of things, and a little bit more won't necessarily alert anyone who doesn't know him really well. Milly's still a new friend. She probably can't tell.)
The fork clinks when he puts it down, and stands up. Without a word, he steps around the table and croaches down beside her, picking up the shattered pieces of glass. ]