I was asking if you're okay? You, um, saw the book I was reading and went kind of faraway for a moment.
[ He recognizes that look, sort of? Laertes and Heracles and some of the older Argonauts used to get like that sometimes, when people brought up certain subjects around them. He doesn't want to set it off again, so he's not picking the book back up to show Salieri, but he wants to know what's wrong so he can avoid it in the future, so he's treading carefully. ]
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[ He recognizes that look, sort of? Laertes and Heracles and some of the older Argonauts used to get like that sometimes, when people brought up certain subjects around them. He doesn't want to set it off again, so he's not picking the book back up to show Salieri, but he wants to know what's wrong so he can avoid it in the future, so he's treading carefully. ]