[Okay. Good. He breathes out, slightly, and tucks the bottle away again, as quickly as it appeared.]
Other people have. [That's all he has to say about it, because if he thinks about it any further, he'll have to think about Brian, the dark mask drawn over his face and the color his hoodie and the way he hadn't spoken and his familiar smile buried in too many years of running and hiding and - ]
[And he doesn't want to think about Brian.]
But you can't know if something else is just as important. If someone else didn't know what these were and decided to take them, just like that, I'd - it'd be real bad for me.
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Other people have. [That's all he has to say about it, because if he thinks about it any further, he'll have to think about Brian, the dark mask drawn over his face and the color his hoodie and the way he hadn't spoken and his familiar smile buried in too many years of running and hiding and - ]
[And he doesn't want to think about Brian.]
But you can't know if something else is just as important. If someone else didn't know what these were and decided to take them, just like that, I'd - it'd be real bad for me.
[And real bad for everyone else.]