[ at this point, he is just — well, ignoring the whole thing with richard holding his chin, because if he thinks about it too much he's just going to phase through the chair and probably richard, too, and knowing what he does, that's not going to go well at all.

so not thinking about it at all it is; and then he frowns, because — ]

Well, uh, Silco asked me about something, and it had to do with, you know, history stuff, and I'd heard previously that he was seeing someone, so — [ a shrug; not hard to piece together the whole thing. of course, jinx had since confirmed it all... but he's not mentioning that part. he'd promised her not to talk to anyone about what she told him, and he's holding to that promise. ]