and it takes him a while to say it, he’s been pacing around the office floor, getting up without speaking, ghosts his way out of the maze of cubilces and into a conference room. there in the dark he hears the results of the mri, things have been pretty bad so far, the inner lining of her lung had detached, and when they thought things were getting better, she hemorraged in her brain and now there’s numbness down one side. he says these things with a detached curiousity, as if he himself is also hearing it for the first time, but he’s heard this all before.
at my reaction he says, it’s funny how your facial expressions are much more animated than my own.