[Irahl fully realizes that he has picked a wild place to start any sort of conversation from, but he's glad that Vincent at least answers mostly in the affirmative. It gives him a place to start. He might have dropped the attempt completely if Vincent had said no.
Like other things that are difficult or complicated for Irahl to put into words, it takes him a minute, slowly and awkwardly picking his way through the thought on the fly. At least he has been preemptively reassured that the man he's trying to talk to is incredibly patient.]
Yeah. It's been... uh. Hard to keep in mind. That it's real.
[He moves his shoulder in an antsy way again, like his skin is uncomfortable.]
Sounds weird, but normally I have... There's this sense. All the time. But I don't really have it out here.
[And he pauses there, not because he's expecting a response or because his thought is finished, but he's hearing the words as they're leaving his mouth and is despairing, as they're making even less sense out loud than they had in his head.]
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Like other things that are difficult or complicated for Irahl to put into words, it takes him a minute, slowly and awkwardly picking his way through the thought on the fly. At least he has been preemptively reassured that the man he's trying to talk to is incredibly patient.]
Yeah. It's been... uh. Hard to keep in mind. That it's real.
[He moves his shoulder in an antsy way again, like his skin is uncomfortable.]
Sounds weird, but normally I have... There's this sense. All the time. But I don't really have it out here.
[And he pauses there, not because he's expecting a response or because his thought is finished, but he's hearing the words as they're leaving his mouth and is despairing, as they're making even less sense out loud than they had in his head.]