Daniel's helplessness shifted, hardened; his eyes narrowed a little. Socially inept?
He considered the accusation, and when he thought about it, he had to concede that a person who was adept at normal interpersonal interaction probably would not have done the things that had put him in his current situation. With this in mind, the sudden tension went out of him, and he gave a small shrug, then a careless, dismissive wave of his pale hand.
"It's true; I have never particularly cared about making friends." Those tedious, pointless niceties. "But Howell, how can you say that I have always been lucid? We have only spoken once before.
"I can assure you now that I was... not myself."
The rest, he couldn't bring himself to describe: how he was deemed legally incompetent, his waste of so much of his father's money... his cringe-worthy attempt to prove himself in Tokyo... it was all so humiliating. He knew, with certainty, that the "world's greatest detective" could never have been such a spectacular failure as to wind up hospitalized for his misdeeds.
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He considered the accusation, and when he thought about it, he had to concede that a person who was adept at normal interpersonal interaction probably would not have done the things that had put him in his current situation. With this in mind, the sudden tension went out of him, and he gave a small shrug, then a careless, dismissive wave of his pale hand.
"It's true; I have never particularly cared about making friends." Those tedious, pointless niceties. "But Howell, how can you say that I have always been lucid? We have only spoken once before.
"I can assure you now that I was... not myself."
The rest, he couldn't bring himself to describe: how he was deemed legally incompetent, his waste of so much of his father's money... his cringe-worthy attempt to prove himself in Tokyo... it was all so humiliating. He knew, with certainty, that the "world's greatest detective" could never have been such a spectacular failure as to wind up hospitalized for his misdeeds.