[ He flounders momentarily, having trouble finding the words for something that ought to be monumentally obvious. What he really should say is something like because knowing you do much worse things to other people, and the only thing stopping you making our time together even more hellish than it is already is some sort of bizarre infatuation with me, doesn't exactly do much to put me at ease around you, but all that ends up coming out is: ]
- because you're insane, and I'm tired!
[ If he hadn't been awake for so many hours on end, or consumed quite so much alcohol in a short space of time, he might have been able to give a more satisfactory answer. But that's really what it boils down to. And he's tired. ]
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[ He flounders momentarily, having trouble finding the words for something that ought to be monumentally obvious. What he really should say is something like because knowing you do much worse things to other people, and the only thing stopping you making our time together even more hellish than it is already is some sort of bizarre infatuation with me, doesn't exactly do much to put me at ease around you, but all that ends up coming out is: ]
- because you're insane, and I'm tired!
[ If he hadn't been awake for so many hours on end, or consumed quite so much alcohol in a short space of time, he might have been able to give a more satisfactory answer. But that's really what it boils down to. And he's tired. ]