[ Amos' grunt in response is the only sign Barnaby should get that he's heard him at all. He keeps his gaze down, focused on the food in front of him, barely even registering the fact that Barnaby has paid.
His mere existence is an inconvenience. Nobody's going to worry about him.
He'll learn, at the end of this, just how false that thought is. Just how much he cannot go spiralling off like this again. But in the meantime... there really isn't any evidence to the contrary, and when he's done here, he's gonna get right back at it.
And when he's sober again, he'll remember how Barnaby — who he'd thought wanted nothing to do with him, and understandably so — had come to him anyway. ]
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His mere existence is an inconvenience. Nobody's going to worry about him.
He'll learn, at the end of this, just how false that thought is. Just how much he cannot go spiralling off like this again. But in the meantime... there really isn't any evidence to the contrary, and when he's done here, he's gonna get right back at it.
And when he's sober again, he'll remember how Barnaby — who he'd thought wanted nothing to do with him, and understandably so — had come to him anyway. ]