"That reminds me, is now a bad time to take my bonus turn?" Neil interpreted Andrew's silence how he wanted and said, "Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?" Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did." Neil didn't know what answer he'd been expecting but this wasn't it. He felt it like a pop to his chest, sharp and startling. He opened his mouth to say something, anything, but what could he possibly say to something like that? Andrew tolerated his blank stare for only a couple seconds before waving this all off as inconsequential and uninteresting. "He said he would
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