[He hesitates, rocks back on the back legs of his chair before responding. It's another way of hurting himself, Cassel thinks, another way of self-inflicting pain. But sometimes that's what's necessary.]
[If there's one thing he can do, it is take at least half of the trip with Beyond, and the only way he knows how to do that is this: instead of lighting a new one, he wordlessly holds out his cigarette instead, remembering the way he and Mickey share, a family thing. It's too early to accept Beyond as part of his family, and he knows it wouldn't be accepted if he offered, but that sense of sharing, of intimacy, is important to him all the same.]
action.
[If there's one thing he can do, it is take at least half of the trip with Beyond, and the only way he knows how to do that is this: instead of lighting a new one, he wordlessly holds out his cigarette instead, remembering the way he and Mickey share, a family thing. It's too early to accept Beyond as part of his family, and he knows it wouldn't be accepted if he offered, but that sense of sharing, of intimacy, is important to him all the same.]