[If that bothers him, it doesn't really show. That's...kind of the point of all this, isn't it? This is something he wishes could be true. Something this world is making alluring, tempting to him. It wouldn't do for them all to be swarming around him, eager to chat up a good old pal with a great long shadow hanging over his head.]
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[If that bothers him, it doesn't really show. That's...kind of the point of all this, isn't it? This is something he wishes could be true. Something this world is making alluring, tempting to him. It wouldn't do for them all to be swarming around him, eager to chat up a good old pal with a great long shadow hanging over his head.]
[So he's not in this equation at all.]