[She can't see the way his hands clasp together very tightly, but some of that tenseness probably shows in his shoulders and jaw.]
It's... kind of you to be concerned. But my father has been dead for decades. There's very little he can do to me beyond guest-star in my nightmares.
[Which is a deflection, yeah, but it's also true. He's got as much closure as he'll ever get from Filbrick Pines, which is to say none, and he has to live with that. First there were other much more important things to deal with and then by the time his life had settled he was nearly seventy and what would the point have been?]
... Is the axe in your dream every time or did I just get a particularly bad one?
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It's... kind of you to be concerned. But my father has been dead for decades. There's very little he can do to me beyond guest-star in my nightmares.
[Which is a deflection, yeah, but it's also true. He's got as much closure as he'll ever get from Filbrick Pines, which is to say none, and he has to live with that. First there were other much more important things to deal with and then by the time his life had settled he was nearly seventy and what would the point have been?]
... Is the axe in your dream every time or did I just get a particularly bad one?
[Nailed it.]