[He ignores the appraising look she's giving him, unbothered by the scrutiny; he's meant to be appealing to look at, and so it's not entirely unusual.]
I work with the police department, primarily as a crime scene investigator.
[And some other things, but at least this is a pretty much truthful answer. He finds it's easier to answer honestly, for some sort of emotional reason that he can't place just yet, but keeping up the whole story is too important right now for emotions to factor in.
Her answer, though, just prompts some more emotions he doesn't understand and a few he does; empathy he understands, and the feeling of being out of place and lost. Guilt, too, which clicks into place as possibly what he's feeling when he lies, even though that makes no sense because he's lied so many times before.
This is all very confusing.]
What were you supposed to be?
[That's the part that stands out to him the most in what she said, and he's genuinely curious. It's not just about her situation, though; some part of him is wondering if maybe what she says could tell him something that would help with his own confusion, very familiar with the idea of being meant to do or be something and then realizing that maybe he didn't want to be.]
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I work with the police department, primarily as a crime scene investigator.
[And some other things, but at least this is a pretty much truthful answer. He finds it's easier to answer honestly, for some sort of emotional reason that he can't place just yet, but keeping up the whole story is too important right now for emotions to factor in.
Her answer, though, just prompts some more emotions he doesn't understand and a few he does; empathy he understands, and the feeling of being out of place and lost. Guilt, too, which clicks into place as possibly what he's feeling when he lies, even though that makes no sense because he's lied so many times before.
This is all very confusing.]
What were you supposed to be?
[That's the part that stands out to him the most in what she said, and he's genuinely curious. It's not just about her situation, though; some part of him is wondering if maybe what she says could tell him something that would help with his own confusion, very familiar with the idea of being meant to do or be something and then realizing that maybe he didn't want to be.]