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[It's Josak's face, that strange wistful expression, that keeps Conrad silent initially, but then each chance to interrupt flew by. It's like Conrad can't follow fast enough, he can't get a complete thought together before Josak's moving on to the next before he's ready for it.]
[And he really should ask. Josak can't possibly mean this how it sounds... but that look. He should just ask, because Josak will obviously correct this, make it all go back to the status quo--]