Flint's certainty echoes in John's voice. It has been many months of them speaking together, seeing the places where the world bends to meet them. But now the foundation has been shaken. There is some price to that, even if John cannot see the shape of it beyond this moment.
"If there's nothing else, I'll see to Mr. DeGroot."
There is something else. It must show in him somehow - in his face or in the small undecided motion of his hands or by the line of his shoulder angled away from the jutting pain in his side. His hand on a stone, measuring the effort and time it will take to turn over. Why isn't a question he can ask, but there are twenty more which occur to him just in the context of this room. But are any of them fundamentally different from that one, though? Don't they all point in that direction?
"See that the launch is made ready as well. I'll be off as soon as it is."
If he is patient, more productive questions will make themselves known.
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Flint's certainty echoes in John's voice. It has been many months of them speaking together, seeing the places where the world bends to meet them. But now the foundation has been shaken. There is some price to that, even if John cannot see the shape of it beyond this moment.
"If there's nothing else, I'll see to Mr. DeGroot."
As if this is any other conversation.
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"See that the launch is made ready as well. I'll be off as soon as it is."
If he is patient, more productive questions will make themselves known.