[He fails to notice the just slightly too-long pause in Ouma's response there, distracted by his own mess of complicated emotions about...well, everything.
The grin Ouma gives him should be reassuring. Maybe it would be on anyone else. But the only thing he's absolutely sure about regarding Ouma -- aside from a few more personal details he's deduced -- is that Ouma is never so straightforward about anything. Saying he was fine with one breath and then playing up his own "suffering" the next certainly fits the bill. None of it is very comforting.
Drawing a breath, he tries to make himself relax. Ouma's acting like his usual self, cheery and lying and immediately going for the guilt trip, so he probably doesn't hate him. Right?]
...What did you have in mind?
[Ouma always has something in mind. Sometimes it feels like he's always (and unfairly) twenty steps ahead of the rest of them in every regard.]
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The grin Ouma gives him should be reassuring. Maybe it would be on anyone else. But the only thing he's absolutely sure about regarding Ouma -- aside from a few more personal details he's deduced -- is that Ouma is never so straightforward about anything. Saying he was fine with one breath and then playing up his own "suffering" the next certainly fits the bill. None of it is very comforting.
Drawing a breath, he tries to make himself relax. Ouma's acting like his usual self, cheery and lying and immediately going for the guilt trip, so he probably doesn't hate him. Right?]
...What did you have in mind?
[Ouma always has something in mind. Sometimes it feels like he's always (and unfairly) twenty steps ahead of the rest of them in every regard.]