[She concedes to his request some and he relaxes just slightly.]
Even if you are right, I don't know how he could have known. A patch is our best solution.
[The tone he takes indicates that he doesn't want to explore it -- he just wants to patch it. The long term solution could be found later. Right now, they had to fix it before he made contingency plans against forgetting.
But finally, he turns around to face her again. She'd verbally acknowledged that it was her fault -- it didn't really make him feel any better, even if some part of him had hoped it would. But he'd also be lying if it was nice to feel like he wasn't the failure here, for once.]
We would have to wipe his entire memory of us both to make absolutely certain.
[His tone indicates that he knows she won't approve of that plan, so it isn't exactly a proposal, but permission for her to offer alternate solutions...because he doesn't have his own.]
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Even if you are right, I don't know how he could have known. A patch is our best solution.
[The tone he takes indicates that he doesn't want to explore it -- he just wants to patch it. The long term solution could be found later. Right now, they had to fix it before he made contingency plans against forgetting.
But finally, he turns around to face her again. She'd verbally acknowledged that it was her fault -- it didn't really make him feel any better, even if some part of him had hoped it would. But he'd also be lying if it was nice to feel like he wasn't the failure here, for once.]
We would have to wipe his entire memory of us both to make absolutely certain.
[His tone indicates that he knows she won't approve of that plan, so it isn't exactly a proposal, but permission for her to offer alternate solutions...because he doesn't have his own.]