And the realisation clicks, and Luther walks as far into the hotel room as he can get before the phone cord finally goes taut and he sinks down to the floor, back to the wall, head and shoulders still curved over the phone in some pretended semblance of privacy. Of course she isn't and Why would you even and When did you go and How did you go and Why didn't you talk to me first. A whole flurry of questions bubbling up before each of them is quickly discarded in turn.
Oh, Allison.
Luther cants his voice and makes it as gentle as possible. Not chiding, not being a know-it-all, not delivering an I-told-you-so. Just repeating her own reality back to her: ]
I guess she wouldn't be. It's a different world. Our lives played out differently here.
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Oh.
And the realisation clicks, and Luther walks as far into the hotel room as he can get before the phone cord finally goes taut and he sinks down to the floor, back to the wall, head and shoulders still curved over the phone in some pretended semblance of privacy. Of course she isn't and Why would you even and When did you go and How did you go and Why didn't you talk to me first. A whole flurry of questions bubbling up before each of them is quickly discarded in turn.
Oh, Allison.
Luther cants his voice and makes it as gentle as possible. Not chiding, not being a know-it-all, not delivering an I-told-you-so. Just repeating her own reality back to her: ]
I guess she wouldn't be. It's a different world. Our lives played out differently here.