[It feels unnecessarily harsh, and so they amend it, perhaps quickly enough to give away that it is not meant to be a curt dismissal.]
[Wrapped into conversation with a stranger who is too polite, who is too kind, who is too eager to relate to them and perhaps dangerously easy for them to relate to in turn - this is now how they'd anticipated their day coming to pass. The danger is present is no longer something they can readily confront, which leaves them...]
IT'S OK BB
[It feels unnecessarily harsh, and so they amend it, perhaps quickly enough to give away that it is not meant to be a curt dismissal.]
[Wrapped into conversation with a stranger who is too polite, who is too kind, who is too eager to relate to them and perhaps dangerously easy for them to relate to in turn - this is now how they'd anticipated their day coming to pass. The danger is present is no longer something they can readily confront, which leaves them...]
[Unmoored.]
drifters live nowhere