[Agreeing, quietly, sitting forward in his chair, putting his elbows on the table and pitching his voice so it won't carry, looking for all the world as casual as can be.
He picks up a teaspoon, starts circling it idly in his cup.]
You live a life a certain way, and it doesn't make you hope for the adrenaline to start kicking, the bullets to fly, the casualties and collateral to start to mount up. But gradually, over time, it does make you twitch in the times in between, you don't settle down quite as well as you used to, you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. And when the next rash of violence happens, you feel the tiniest little twinge of relief, for the waiting being over.
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[Agreeing, quietly, sitting forward in his chair, putting his elbows on the table and pitching his voice so it won't carry, looking for all the world as casual as can be.
He picks up a teaspoon, starts circling it idly in his cup.]
You live a life a certain way, and it doesn't make you hope for the adrenaline to start kicking, the bullets to fly, the casualties and collateral to start to mount up. But gradually, over time, it does make you twitch in the times in between, you don't settle down quite as well as you used to, you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. And when the next rash of violence happens, you feel the tiniest little twinge of relief, for the waiting being over.