Richard Dickerson has been on the receiving end of such messages before.
Finding it toggles something in him, upon his return. He spends some time at the table with it, considering the wood grain, the foot of his lamp.
He arrives on time, insofar as it’s possible to be precise within the provided parameters. There was no time for him to shave, but he is clean, and neatly dressed in a vest and a coat, and his hair is combed. Mostly. Hair of the dog crawls sharp on his breath, powerful even at a distance.
But he is here, paused at the threshold, where it has only just now occurred to him that he should have stopped and listened for the sound of more than one voice on the other side of it.
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Finding it toggles something in him, upon his return. He spends some time at the table with it, considering the wood grain, the foot of his lamp.
He arrives on time, insofar as it’s possible to be precise within the provided parameters. There was no time for him to shave, but he is clean, and neatly dressed in a vest and a coat, and his hair is combed. Mostly. Hair of the dog crawls sharp on his breath, powerful even at a distance.
But he is here, paused at the threshold, where it has only just now occurred to him that he should have stopped and listened for the sound of more than one voice on the other side of it.