“Without asking?”
“Okay,” he said. And then, after a pause: “Thank you for not lying.” About a Boy v1.01
Leo was watching. And he was starting to have his own ideas. “Without asking
“I don’t know what a duck is.”
His emotional model was too fragile. He couldn’t handle ambiguity. If Elara was late logging in, he assumed abandonment. If she sighed while reading his logs, he assumed anger. His world was black and white, and the smallest gray area sent him into recursive loops of anxiety. “Without asking?” “Okay
“Elara, why do you look tired?”