[ at that, he nods with a bit more energy - that was exactly the test he'd been thinking of, but he hadn't brought it up in case it was... he doesn't know. Tacky? Rude? It's a relief that Henry the younger brings it up first, because he doesn't know how else he could prove it. ]
Okay.
[ he closes his eyes to try and focus - surely having clear thoughts would make it easier. What should he think about...? He remembers a bright silver sports car he'd seen parked across the street through his apartment window a few weeks ago that he'd wished he could've seen up close... maybe that's not specific enough. As long as he doesn't think about anything embarrassing, it should be fine - a thought which, naturally, makes him think about his cute neighbor, Eileen, and when he reprimands himself to say no, don't think about that, it only causes a quick flash of some other things he doesn't want to think about to come in. Rotten half-mummified body of a man suspended in a plaster wall. Writhing bloody cloth bag stuffed inside a fridge. Fattened corpse lying face-down in stagnant drainage water -- no, just a silver sports car. Focus on that! ]
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Okay.
[ he closes his eyes to try and focus - surely having clear thoughts would make it easier. What should he think about...? He remembers a bright silver sports car he'd seen parked across the street through his apartment window a few weeks ago that he'd wished he could've seen up close... maybe that's not specific enough. As long as he doesn't think about anything embarrassing, it should be fine - a thought which, naturally, makes him think about his cute neighbor, Eileen, and when he reprimands himself to say no, don't think about that, it only causes a quick flash of some other things he doesn't want to think about to come in. Rotten half-mummified body of a man suspended in a plaster wall. Writhing bloody cloth bag stuffed inside a fridge. Fattened corpse lying face-down in stagnant drainage water -- no, just a silver sports car. Focus on that! ]