[He would be - not sad, but something like it, if he knew she'd crushed the present. As it is, he reaches out, adjusts the angle of his fork beside his mostly full plate.]
That riddle has more significance than [your death is what he wants to say, and doesn't let himself] you allow it. I would not have picked so haphazardly.
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That riddle has more significance than [your death is what he wants to say, and doesn't let himself] you allow it. I would not have picked so haphazardly.
[He settles his hands in his lap again.]
You have it with you? [He can smell it.]