Whatever brilliant idea Elliot thinks he has here, it wasn't part of my original plan. I had originally planned to pretty much let the emotional awkwardness of the situation fester with no one sure what to say, and move on with other things.
Which I decided I didn't like.
Don't get me wrong, I'm okay with letting an emotional hit like that fester in a story. I just decided that something more should happen in this moment, as SOMEONE there would say SOMETHING.
And out of the blue, that someone wound up being Elliot.
It's time for word punching.
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