[He wants to respond with the kind of quip he'd normally throw at Josh, something like 'only when you're being a problem on purpose', but alarm bells are going off in his head and he stops himself; he freezes in place entirely for a moment, then slowly turns to look at Josh again.
Okay. Okay, stay calm, let the situation diffuse a bit so Josh can focus on overriding the wendigo spirit again... If he's even trying to.
He better be trying to, or Chris has the feeling this is going to go from bad to worse.]
That's so not true.
[He says it quietly, evenly, and he means it. Yeah, Josh is definitely difficult sometimes--and even more so lately--but they're friends. He's known about Josh's issues for a long time, and if all he thought about Josh were that he's a problem Chris would've cut out a long time ago.]
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Okay. Okay, stay calm, let the situation diffuse a bit so Josh can focus on overriding the wendigo spirit again... If he's even trying to.
He better be trying to, or Chris has the feeling this is going to go from bad to worse.]
That's so not true.
[He says it quietly, evenly, and he means it. Yeah, Josh is definitely difficult sometimes--and even more so lately--but they're friends. He's known about Josh's issues for a long time, and if all he thought about Josh were that he's a problem Chris would've cut out a long time ago.]