[ It's not really a tone anyone here has heard him take much, save Estelle. They've heard Joshua being politely good-natured, serious and remote, calmly self-deprecating.
This is cold, but like Guren, it's not really coldness directed at the other half of the conversation. It's just logic, but applied so hard there's no room in it for feeling - good or bad. ]
Call it a consideration for next time. It's reasonable to assume that, given the chance, this is how it'll strike at you again.
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[ It's not really a tone anyone here has heard him take much, save Estelle. They've heard Joshua being politely good-natured, serious and remote, calmly self-deprecating.
This is cold, but like Guren, it's not really coldness directed at the other half of the conversation. It's just logic, but applied so hard there's no room in it for feeling - good or bad. ]
Call it a consideration for next time. It's reasonable to assume that, given the chance, this is how it'll strike at you again.