[ Kahlil nods, making a forced sound between a scoff and a laugh.
But the birds only returning, half a dozen now. They sit on the wiry branches and call back and forth to one another in two voices:
“But you were right.” It's Kyle's voice first - he sounds younger. “I hadn’t thought about what could happen to us. When I did...when I thought of what Dayyid could do to you if he discovered us…” “It’s all right,” a different man answers him. “We aren’t going to do anything. So nothing will happen to us.” “Nothing’s going to happen?” “I told you, I didn’t know what I was talking about."
Kahlil does not interrupt this conversation. He somehow seems more taken aback this time, glancing over briefly at Wilhelm - almost as if both embarrassed and confused. ]
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But the birds only returning, half a dozen now. They sit on the wiry branches and call back and forth to one another in two voices:
“But you were right.” It's Kyle's voice first - he sounds younger. “I hadn’t thought about what could happen to us. When I did...when I thought of what Dayyid could do to you if he discovered us…”
“It’s all right,” a different man answers him. “We aren’t going to do anything. So nothing will happen to us.”
“Nothing’s going to happen?”
“I told you, I didn’t know what I was talking about."
Kahlil does not interrupt this conversation. He somehow seems more taken aback this time, glancing over briefly at Wilhelm - almost as if both embarrassed and confused. ]
I - that's not me.
[ The one that sounds like him. ]