[Ben is also really bad at lying, but it's easier for him to be calm than most would anticipate, speaking to him normally. He repeats her name with due severity, but also a tempered kind of warmth. It's interest, genuine.
He turns another slow step, eyes still skipping here and there around him: he could pinpoint her if he wanted to, but now that she's talking, he backs off the effort a little.]
Are you hiding from someone? Or has something happened?
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[Ben is also really bad at lying, but it's easier for him to be calm than most would anticipate, speaking to him normally. He repeats her name with due severity, but also a tempered kind of warmth. It's interest, genuine.
He turns another slow step, eyes still skipping here and there around him: he could pinpoint her if he wanted to, but now that she's talking, he backs off the effort a little.]
Are you hiding from someone? Or has something happened?