[ He wonders. He says they haven't seen each other in a decade. That they were friends, and he was the only one who could best him.
How oddly similar they are. ]
You want to celebrate a friendship that lapsed for a time?
No, I suppose some are sentimental for such things. [ A beat. ] Was the rift your doing?
[ It's a question, pointed, curious, perhaps a touch of projection in there. They had been friends in school, which is not so much like what he knew β his education poor and mostly self-taught β but he knew the ages children went to school. Generally. ]
no subject
How oddly similar they are. ]
You want to celebrate a friendship that lapsed for a time?
No, I suppose some are sentimental for such things. [ A beat. ] Was the rift your doing?
[ It's a question, pointed, curious, perhaps a touch of projection in there. They had been friends in school, which is not so much like what he knew β his education poor and mostly self-taught β but he knew the ages children went to school. Generally. ]