Speaking of emotional pragmatism. He doesn't hesitate before he asks, though that unkindly honest question had come before it because it took a bit of a psychological run up to achieve; it feels like a strange thing to want to know when being told something of this magnitude, the size of it something he can feel the edges of with his fingers and his part of this landscape so small, but then again it strikes him as exactly the most appropriate question when being trusted with that information.
That the question is, essentially, who is my friend and not is this real is a form of trust that he doesn't even think about, because it doesn't occur to him it wouldn't be.
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Speaking of emotional pragmatism. He doesn't hesitate before he asks, though that unkindly honest question had come before it because it took a bit of a psychological run up to achieve; it feels like a strange thing to want to know when being told something of this magnitude, the size of it something he can feel the edges of with his fingers and his part of this landscape so small, but then again it strikes him as exactly the most appropriate question when being trusted with that information.
That the question is, essentially, who is my friend and not is this real is a form of trust that he doesn't even think about, because it doesn't occur to him it wouldn't be.