Nnno, [ Alistair answers, with equal uncertainty. He is rarely sure what it is Cade wants from him. Not that he’d give it to him if he did know, but it would be nice to know where he stood, in the scheme of giving or not giving the expected thing. ] I don’t know what to say, that’s all.
[And here they are again. Somehow it always ends up this way, with awkward shuffling and no idea how to proceed, as though they're strangers. And maybe they are. Maybe it's been too long, and they should give up on that brief connection they had.
But then, Alistair did think to give him a gift.]
...I really like it. [Cade turns the box over in his hands.] It... it'll help.
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[And here they are again. Somehow it always ends up this way, with awkward shuffling and no idea how to proceed, as though they're strangers. And maybe they are. Maybe it's been too long, and they should give up on that brief connection they had.
But then, Alistair did think to give him a gift.]
...I really like it. [Cade turns the box over in his hands.] It... it'll help.