[ It occurs to Tennal to be certain that his communications are being monitored, that he should have sent a vague text if he was going to say anything at all, but far be it for him to think through the consequences of his own actions before he takes them.
Maybe if he did that, he wouldn't be locked out at all. Or maybe he could have thought it through and still not cared enough to behave himself, that is how things sometimes go with him. ]
If you insist.
[ It's probably a polite fiction on both of theirs parts, he probably won't really show. Tennal tries to tell himself that he knows that and that it's fine that way. ]
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Maybe if he did that, he wouldn't be locked out at all. Or maybe he could have thought it through and still not cared enough to behave himself, that is how things sometimes go with him. ]
If you insist.
[ It's probably a polite fiction on both of theirs parts, he probably won't really show. Tennal tries to tell himself that he knows that and that it's fine that way. ]