[ He narrows his eyes a little bit at that. 'Something someone said pinged off things you've said.' He wonders who's been talking and about what. Logically, it should just be people discussing Afghanistan, in which case the thing he said was that gave her pause to consider that it had happened more than once.
He rather feverishly hopes it's somehow the other way around, but in his experience life doesn't work like that.
Asking her about what the other person said or whatever it was that he himself said isn't really likely to get him anywhere, so he just ignores both potential lines of thought and moves on to something else. Specifically, how many times has he been kidnapped. ]
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He rather feverishly hopes it's somehow the other way around, but in his experience life doesn't work like that.
Asking her about what the other person said or whatever it was that he himself said isn't really likely to get him anywhere, so he just ignores both potential lines of thought and moves on to something else. Specifically, how many times has he been kidnapped. ]
Clarify 'kidnapped'?