please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere
Though she knows what she has done, Tobi can only guess at the cost. He's busy, she tells herself, of his silence. You didn't ask him for any sort of response, so why are you expecting one? she rationalizes of her unanswered letter. What makes you think he doesn't have a glasses case? He isn't the sort for cards. And the loudest whisper of all in her mind: Why did you have to ask him for help? Your impulsiveness shouldn't have cost him so much. How could you?. She was right. Who was she to take that from Finn?
As Finn enters the clinic, one of the nurses looks up and fixes him with a stare. "Mr. Rosencrantz!" She scolds with a matronly wag of her finger which is echoed in the sway of her jowls. "If you think that because you've not picked up your prescription for the past week that I am going to let you have all of it—" Hearing his name, Tobi is immediately on her feet. Instead of running into the clinic to wrap her arms around Finn's neck and sing his praises and her apologies, she instead tiptoes to her door, opening it a crack and peering out. Even from the slim slit of light she's viewing him in, he looks rough. Hissing in a breath as the nurse continues her lecture—"-and I know you know where they're kept, so don't even think about it!"—and so on, and so forth.
As Finn enters the clinic, one of the nurses looks up and fixes him with a stare. "Mr. Rosencrantz!" She scolds with a matronly wag of her finger which is echoed in the sway of her jowls. "If you think that because you've not picked up your prescription for the past week that I am going to let you have all of it—" Hearing his name, Tobi is immediately on her feet. Instead of running into the clinic to wrap her arms around Finn's neck and sing his praises and her apologies, she instead tiptoes to her door, opening it a crack and peering out. Even from the slim slit of light she's viewing him in, he looks rough. Hissing in a breath as the nurse continues her lecture—"-and I know you know where they're kept, so don't even think about it!"—and so on, and so forth.
October
