[ What you'll see then, from this one, is the way his eyes drop and slide away, the subtle shift of his torso as if he is about to lean back into that chair before he catches himself and remains sitting up straight, and the breath that he quietly exhales through the gap there between his lips.
There is no doubt that the answer he would have given Brother Death would have always been "No," but Josh does feel bad that it had such an adverse effect that the abstract being who had been in their company for some time had, in fact, chosen to hold himself apart from them.
He's remembering the offer to join them, you see, and the way he'd simply moved away from all of the Hounds. Josh is also remembering the end of their part of the Hour, which he has deliberately decided to keep to himself.
The tell for that is the subtle twitch of his brow, and the subsequent schooling of his features as he shelves the memory of being the last one standing on that field, out of all the people in Wave 6. ]
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There is no doubt that the answer he would have given Brother Death would have always been "No," but Josh does feel bad that it had such an adverse effect that the abstract being who had been in their company for some time had, in fact, chosen to hold himself apart from them.
He's remembering the offer to join them, you see, and the way he'd simply moved away from all of the Hounds. Josh is also remembering the end of their part of the Hour, which he has deliberately decided to keep to himself.
The tell for that is the subtle twitch of his brow, and the subsequent schooling of his features as he shelves the memory of being the last one standing on that field, out of all the people in Wave 6. ]
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