[Ah, he understands. Mayoi offers him a quiet nod.]
As I …as I walked past, I thought to myself, “That many people in one building must surely be hell.”
[He sips his tea. Here. In this place that is surely hell, but for some reason it doesn’t feel as bad as he thought it might.]
Perhaps we are under some …some terrible socializing spell…
[It sounds ridiculous but Mayoi sounds genuinely horrified by the notion such a thing could exist. He’s been watching the dance floor, too, which his want to dance and the only thing that hasn’t sprung him out there is this nervous feeling under his skin that if he does someone might see him. But …it’s a feeling slowly ebbing away the longer he sits here, sipping his tea.]
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As I …as I walked past, I thought to myself, “That many people in one building must surely be hell.”
[He sips his tea. Here. In this place that is surely hell, but for some reason it doesn’t feel as bad as he thought it might.]
Perhaps we are under some …some terrible socializing spell…
[It sounds ridiculous but Mayoi sounds genuinely horrified by the notion such a thing could exist. He’s been watching the dance floor, too, which his want to dance and the only thing that hasn’t sprung him out there is this nervous feeling under his skin that if he does someone might see him. But …it’s a feeling slowly ebbing away the longer he sits here, sipping his tea.]