[Chauncy's half-smile falls, and he swallows, jaw tight.]

I ...

[Takara's hand is gone, and so his balls up, tense like the rest of him.]

I can't speak for ... him, but...

It sounds like I was really at the end of my thread, if I was going to try that kind of gambit. I've done something similar before- not exactly the same, but similar. Maybe I thought...

I don't know. I don't know what he's seen, or is thinking.