[ Easier to ask — to address — than the fact that she is, he thinks, the only other person in this house besides Jinx who knows the truth of how he died (that he’s dead at all), not for hearsay but for having been there when it happened.
As for bereft— he shouldn’t linger, but it’s the needle in his palm when he grasps his own daughter’s hand, a phantom pain now as he wonders just how much damage Jinx has done since he left her. It’s visible in the fact that he asks Caitlin what she wants at all rather than telling her that she has to earn being seen as anything else, though he doubts, when he rereads the words on the screen, that she knows him well enough to recognize the falter. ]
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[ Easier to ask — to address — than the fact that she is, he thinks, the only other person in this house besides Jinx who knows the truth of how he died (that he’s dead at all), not for hearsay but for having been there when it happened.
As for bereft— he shouldn’t linger, but it’s the needle in his palm when he grasps his own daughter’s hand, a phantom pain now as he wonders just how much damage Jinx has done since he left her. It’s visible in the fact that he asks Caitlin what she wants at all rather than telling her that she has to earn being seen as anything else, though he doubts, when he rereads the words on the screen, that she knows him well enough to recognize the falter. ]