[A practiced, picturesque pose that he recalls with uneasy clarity, as though the man hadn't been dead these last three years, body burned away to nothing more than ash. It occurs to Julian that maybe he could just come out and ask, figure out once and for all who killed the man, because whilst he knows now that it wasn't him, there are still gaps and fissures in the tale, things he believes he was on the verge of figuring out until finding himself here pulled him away from his appointment with the gallows...
...but he doesn't want Lucio wound up, or angry, doesn't want to stoke the coals of the man's petty viciousness. So he doesn't voice it, in the end, just stands there stiff and awkward and quite afraid.]
It's just a bit of a surprise. To see you and...all the rest of it. This place, um. You know what I mean.
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...but he doesn't want Lucio wound up, or angry, doesn't want to stoke the coals of the man's petty viciousness. So he doesn't voice it, in the end, just stands there stiff and awkward and quite afraid.]
It's just a bit of a surprise. To see you and...all the rest of it. This place, um. You know what I mean.
[Eloquent.]