[It makes him angry, all of what she says, in the way he's learned to detach and shuttle off to somewhere out of his immediate focus. He knows all of that, of course, both from speaking with her, watching her, and from reading her file. If he could go back and fix it some way, any way, he would not hesitate but he has long known that there is no way back. There is only forward.
There is only what he can control in and of himself, and whether or not he's willing to surrender that to someone else. Abigail looks away, but Ben does not.]
How much of that is still true? Here, today, right now?
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[It makes him angry, all of what she says, in the way he's learned to detach and shuttle off to somewhere out of his immediate focus. He knows all of that, of course, both from speaking with her, watching her, and from reading her file. If he could go back and fix it some way, any way, he would not hesitate but he has long known that there is no way back. There is only forward.
There is only what he can control in and of himself, and whether or not he's willing to surrender that to someone else. Abigail looks away, but Ben does not.]
How much of that is still true? Here, today, right now?