One question, forty minutes ago. Still answering.
Someone asked one question forty minutes ago — one — and you're still answering it. The sofa cushions have been arranged into a formation. A coaster is the goalkeeper. You're using the phrase 'second phase' to a person who came for the snacks. The Eye sat through the entire seminar and took its own notes, and they're about you: teaching is how you ask to be valued. Knowing things is the one seat in any room you trust yourself to hold — the explainer's chair doesn't wobble, doesn't depend on charm or luck, can't be taken by someone louder. You do it with movies. With tax brackets. With the objectively correct way to load a dishwasher. But the Eye clocked the scanning: you read the room for confusion the way strikers read defenses for space, because a confused face is an opening, and an opening is an invitation, and an invitation means you belong here, certified, for at least the length of the explanation. The wrinkle is what happens when nobody has a question. The Eye watched you in that minute too. You looked, briefly, like a man at a bus stop where the route's been cancelled.
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