[Murphy jumps. It's a jolt of tension through his frame, heightened fight or flight demanding immediate response to a sudden, unexpected unknown. He'd been keeping half his attention on the door. The guy shouldn't have been able to creep up on him like that.]
Nah.
[It's a blatant lie, obvious from the way he's been looking at and discarding the books. But he wouldn't have been forthcoming normally - now he's like a discomforted cat, cool bristling defensive for having been startled.]
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Nah.
[It's a blatant lie, obvious from the way he's been looking at and discarding the books. But he wouldn't have been forthcoming normally - now he's like a discomforted cat, cool bristling defensive for having been startled.]
But if you were, he's gone out.