[ More an affirmation to himself than an answer to her question, he puts up only another insistent denial. The faint shock that cuts through that childish, brooding look that seems to be his permanent default is nothing, easily dismissed by equally childish rationality.
He doesn't know anybody from outside this isolated, backwater town. He doesn't have any reason to. Just the same way he doesn't have any reason to pause again, instead of bolting off up the mountain path - though he does, anyway, for a moment more. ]
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[ More an affirmation to himself than an answer to her question, he puts up only another insistent denial. The faint shock that cuts through that childish, brooding look that seems to be his permanent default is nothing, easily dismissed by equally childish rationality.
He doesn't know anybody from outside this isolated, backwater town. He doesn't have any reason to. Just the same way he doesn't have any reason to pause again, instead of bolting off up the mountain path - though he does, anyway, for a moment more. ]