[He meets James's eyes this time, even though it's a lie. Or - not a lie, a prediction. He will be okay. Right now, he can at least hold himself together.]
[The thing is that he doesn't understand what's just happened. His father so rarely held him that all his signals are crossed. He thinks again of Zane, of Vesper, of Barbara, and he looks at James in quietly pleased confusion.]
spam;
[He meets James's eyes this time, even though it's a lie. Or - not a lie, a prediction. He will be okay. Right now, he can at least hold himself together.]
[The thing is that he doesn't understand what's just happened. His father so rarely held him that all his signals are crossed. He thinks again of Zane, of Vesper, of Barbara, and he looks at James in quietly pleased confusion.]
Are you? Don't lie.