The boy went distant and Inoichi marked exactly when. That sort of disconnect, of being not quite there was obvious when you knew how to look.
"Tell me about the war," he said, his voice firm but not sharp. Get him talking about something else and then he'd angle the conversation back around to his daughter. Inoichi was by no means done probing what had happened to her but there was no point in asking questions when the boy wasn't even there.
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Date: 2010-12-24 12:44 am (UTC)"Tell me about the war," he said, his voice firm but not sharp. Get him talking about something else and then he'd angle the conversation back around to his daughter. Inoichi was by no means done probing what had happened to her but there was no point in asking questions when the boy wasn't even there.