[It's a genuine question. There's nothing accusatory in it. He'd honestly felt the same way when the others had been here. He could handle this -- he could do this without the people hammering in the back of his mind.]
[And now they're gone.]
Is that why you're here? Going to fill the silence?
[Another dusting of dull, dry humor. The sort of bleak jokes he makes whenever anything goes wrong.]
no subject
[It's a genuine question. There's nothing accusatory in it. He'd honestly felt the same way when the others had been here. He could handle this -- he could do this without the people hammering in the back of his mind.]
[And now they're gone.]
Is that why you're here? Going to fill the silence?
[Another dusting of dull, dry humor. The sort of bleak jokes he makes whenever anything goes wrong.]
Probably. Maybe two minutes.