[What Kid really needs to do is not make excuses. What he is going to do is he is going to make an excuse.
One hand weakly gestures to his small collection of items on the floor, the other choosing an old sheet to unfold and then fold again. The coughing--a symptom of the MN poisoning that had brought them together in the first place--rattles his chest as he works through his "sorting" of items.]
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[What Kid really needs to do is not make excuses. What he is going to do is he is going to make an excuse.
One hand weakly gestures to his small collection of items on the floor, the other choosing an old sheet to unfold and then fold again. The coughing--a symptom of the MN poisoning that had brought them together in the first place--rattles his chest as he works through his "sorting" of items.]