[ It's crazy how familiar it feels to sit here with his food and watch Robby sitting there at the table, seeing the boy nearly smile. Even though it's been almost a year since he was even able to have a full conversation with the boy - a conversation that wasn't just cut off phone calls and unanswered emails, that wasn't reaching out and finding nothing to take back. And even though nothing is really like the way it was last summer, there's a part of this that feels like it, or at least carries a familiar warmth.
(It's enough to make a man believe that maybe, just maybe, this is all some sort of coma dream he's having after what Silver did to him. It would explain so much. Why else give Daniel back one of the things he's longed for the most over the past year?) ]
Crazy explanations?
[ And yet somehow Daniel manages to reply in a normal way. Like the slight routine they've fallen into of eating together - sometimes like this, sometimes with Mob, sometimes with Peter - is just the way it's always been, even though it isn't.
It certainly makes Daniel feel the most normal he's felt this entire time in this city, even though the topic they're discussing is far from normal - and the way Daniel zooms in on that part of what Robby is saying makes it definitely seem like he's already experienced the rest himself too. ]
Did someone tell you their theory about what this place is?
[ He pricks some more pasta onto his fork, now properly taking a bite of it so he can listen to Robby in the meantime. ]
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(It's enough to make a man believe that maybe, just maybe, this is all some sort of coma dream he's having after what Silver did to him. It would explain so much. Why else give Daniel back one of the things he's longed for the most over the past year?) ]
Crazy explanations?
[ And yet somehow Daniel manages to reply in a normal way. Like the slight routine they've fallen into of eating together - sometimes like this, sometimes with Mob, sometimes with Peter - is just the way it's always been, even though it isn't.
It certainly makes Daniel feel the most normal he's felt this entire time in this city, even though the topic they're discussing is far from normal - and the way Daniel zooms in on that part of what Robby is saying makes it definitely seem like he's already experienced the rest himself too. ]
Did someone tell you their theory about what this place is?
[ He pricks some more pasta onto his fork, now properly taking a bite of it so he can listen to Robby in the meantime. ]