[ He doesn't argue, but not because he's offended or particularly shut up about it-- he didn't mean it in any other way but the plain mechanic of it. Sometimes, he's noticed, jaded people become defensive about their shitty situations, as if the lack of solution is a personal failure, and not just the way the universe has dealt a hand.
(Like he used to.)
Jim doesn't look offended. He just looks back at her, as if waiting for her to go on, maybe get something out of her system, but that's all.
And then the moment passes, and there's work to do. ]
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(Like he used to.)
Jim doesn't look offended. He just looks back at her, as if waiting for her to go on, maybe get something out of her system, but that's all.
And then the moment passes, and there's work to do. ]