[But then, again, that same thing happens — he stops a little, hesitant, and this time the same sounds echo back as he very nearly repeats them, just with a subtle but significant variation.]
You're our idiot.
[And that's — he's missing the point, he knows, or dodging it, or avoiding it, but one way or another he knows what the point is and it's somewhere over there, not here.
Maybe he doesn't want to approach the point. Maybe that's why the dodge is easier.]
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[But then, again, that same thing happens — he stops a little, hesitant, and this time the same sounds echo back as he very nearly repeats them, just with a subtle but significant variation.]
You're our idiot.
[And that's — he's missing the point, he knows, or dodging it, or avoiding it, but one way or another he knows what the point is and it's somewhere over there, not here.
Maybe he doesn't want to approach the point. Maybe that's why the dodge is easier.]