[When she says his name, he tenses as though he's bracing for something unpleasant to happen.]
[But whatever he might have expected her to say, and he doesn't even know what he expected, asking him to sit wasn't it. He looks startled, and for a moment he looks every single year of his age.]
[But then that's gone, replaced by careful neutrality, and he sits with one arm flung over the back of the chair as he always does.]
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[But whatever he might have expected her to say, and he doesn't even know what he expected, asking him to sit wasn't it. He looks startled, and for a moment he looks every single year of his age.]
[But then that's gone, replaced by careful neutrality, and he sits with one arm flung over the back of the chair as he always does.]
Yeah...yeah, okay.