[ He's still looking at the desk, because there's a myriad of thoughts tumbling around in his mind with an equally tempestuous swirl of emotions and looking at something solid, safe, and unmoving, will totally help him sort all of that out. He's not looking at the test anymore, just at the desk's surface, more or less just sort of zoning out on it. He's not going to be back for a little while here, but just give him a second.
A lot of flashbacks happening, the highlights and lowlights of his own life coming to pass by like projections on microfiche. It's not that the news is particularly unwanted, just that it's staggeringly sudden, and carries with it a whole new door of doubt and and inferiority and criticism and uncertainty that Tony hasn't even opened yet, at this point.
He glances back over at her a little while later. He's not really any clearer about things from his own end, but he's realized he should probably be a little more helpful towards her. As shocking as this is to him it must be even more so to her. ]
good. you'd better.
A lot of flashbacks happening, the highlights and lowlights of his own life coming to pass by like projections on microfiche. It's not that the news is particularly unwanted, just that it's staggeringly sudden, and carries with it a whole new door of doubt and and inferiority and criticism and uncertainty that Tony hasn't even opened yet, at this point.
He glances back over at her a little while later. He's not really any clearer about things from his own end, but he's realized he should probably be a little more helpful towards her. As shocking as this is to him it must be even more so to her. ]
You're a lot safer now. If you wanted to keep it.