A long, dark silence falls, because Jackal has nothing to say to that.
"Even when he was first healthy again, he... It was good to see the way he moved, but he wasn't moving like himself. Not at all."
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A long, dark silence falls, because Jackal has nothing to say to that.
"Even when he was first healthy again, he... It was good to see the way he moved, but he wasn't moving like himself. Not at all."