[ Steven is taken aback for a long few seconds. The concern is as apparent as it is potent, if layered with some other more inscrutable emotion in the process. Look, hearing stuff like that is like a one-way ticket to gearing up for being worried.
Kevin might be the only person he knows here who's better at Being Fine than he is.
But that thought forces a short, helpless sort of laugh out of him in the same swing, just on the whole principle of thinking it and acknowledging it. Seeing as, go figure: ]
Are you sure you're not a psychic? Because I was gonna say something pretty close to that, too.
[ He's starting to wonder if they are maybe genuinely not okay in a serious capacity, as people. Time to tuck that thought right away beneath the floorboards for now. ]
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Kevin might be the only person he knows here who's better at Being Fine than he is.
But that thought forces a short, helpless sort of laugh out of him in the same swing, just on the whole principle of thinking it and acknowledging it. Seeing as, go figure: ]
Are you sure you're not a psychic? Because I was gonna say something pretty close to that, too.
[ He's starting to wonder if they are maybe genuinely not okay in a serious capacity, as people. Time to tuck that thought right away beneath the floorboards for now. ]