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Not like you can read people's minds. Shit happens.

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I wish it was as simple as that.

[Another sip.]

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[He looks away.]

You know... I moved somewhere where not makin' other people uncomfortable was the whole point.

In the City of Rain, we don't talk to each other on the streets 'cause there's so many laws nobody wants to accidentally break one.

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...

That sounds...stifling.

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It's perfect.

I miss it.

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You weren't lonely?

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... I'd be lyin' if I said I was never lonely. But mostly it worked out well.

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May I ask if it was after, or before...him? That you moved to this city?

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[He does not meet Sholmes' eyes.]

... After. I wanted an easy place to live, where nobody would ask about me.

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...

[He hangs his head slightly.]

I can't say I don't understand that feeling right now. In it's own way.

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It's easier that way. Keepin' perfect distances, where nobody needs to know too much 'n nobody has to open up.

Can't really do that here.

[It does make him long for that city where every law is about avoiding unpleasantness.]

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But you have gotten some good experiences here, yes? Outside of your...perfect distances....

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I still prefer the distance. But I guess... gettin' to know some of ya hasn't been all bad.

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Hah.

[Another sip of the whiskey.]

You probably would just want us to leave you alone, most days.

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That's just the kinda guy I am.

... 'm not good with people.

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Maybe not some social butterfly, but...

You get along with people just fine.

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[...

He does not look like he believes that.]

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Do you think merely just tolerate you? No, no. They like you. I can tell.

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They really shouldn't.

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...And why not?

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I wonder what ya think.

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I'm too tired to make deductions today, my dear fellow. [He looks down at his whiskey glass.] You don't feel you deserve it, perhaps?

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Somethin' like that.

[After betraying a partner, what hope is there? Nobody should put their trust in him.

It's safer to keep people at a distance.]

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...I'm a liar, a cheat, and someone who ruined a friend's trust of me by inadvertently hurting his loved one.

[...]

From what even little I know of you...you're better off than I in the "you deserve it" department.

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[So that's what that meeting was about.]

You barely know me. 'n that's on purpose.