[There is a patent regularity to most new host's thoughts. A certain number of typical responses to the situation, so he while her thoughts are less than silent he takes no more notice of them than he would of a miss-set button or a crooked tie. To point out something such as that to one you didn't know was rude. Best to ignore it, like you would the minor indiscretions of a child.
He tips his head slightly, focused on the words, not the background. On what mattered.]
You did not answer Cathaway's call?
[Enough time had passed for him to think it likely. Not guaranteed, however. Sometimes nearly every member of the new broods would go. Sometimes almost none. Predicting it was impossible on a case by case basis, but in the end he found it roughly even. Thoughts of regularity and pattern were something to occupy his thoughts where the increasing silence and emptiness between waves of broods lengthened.]
no subject
He tips his head slightly, focused on the words, not the background. On what mattered.]
You did not answer Cathaway's call?
[Enough time had passed for him to think it likely. Not guaranteed, however. Sometimes nearly every member of the new broods would go. Sometimes almost none. Predicting it was impossible on a case by case basis, but in the end he found it roughly even. Thoughts of regularity and pattern were something to occupy his thoughts where the increasing silence and emptiness between waves of broods lengthened.]