[He's only just been born, of course he's no more than an infant. How old is he in Jamie's recollection, Grey has to wonder? Though he stops himself from asking. He stops himself from asking a great many things, though it does not keep him from wanting to know their answer.]
Yes, I...
[He seems to visibly shake himself, glancing around before back at Jamie himself. No, no, he must ask this much at least.]
I'm sorry, did you say -- your wife? [He raises his eyebrows again at the other man. He'd said something of her before in their conversation but it's taken a moment for the gravity of it to register for him.] Do you mean to say that she's... Here?
[Politely swapping the word in that last question for the one that had been on the tip of his tongue: alive.]
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Yes, I...
[He seems to visibly shake himself, glancing around before back at Jamie himself. No, no, he must ask this much at least.]
I'm sorry, did you say -- your wife? [He raises his eyebrows again at the other man. He'd said something of her before in their conversation but it's taken a moment for the gravity of it to register for him.] Do you mean to say that she's... Here?
[Politely swapping the word in that last question for the one that had been on the tip of his tongue: alive.]