[That'll balance it out. It has to. Unless he's - ]
[Unless you've just killed him.]
[The idea of someone spiking, drugging, poisoning his drink, it leaps like a spark into his brain and races up the back of his spine, stiffens his back, gaps his mouth, and he wants to scream, wants to strike the cup out of the other man's hand because you did this, you did this to him.]
[Calm down. Calm down. Breathe. Breathe.]
[But he isn't, and he can't. The most he manages is a small, panicked hiss:]
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[Unless you've just killed him.]
[The idea of someone spiking, drugging, poisoning his drink, it leaps like a spark into his brain and races up the back of his spine, stiffens his back, gaps his mouth, and he wants to scream, wants to strike the cup out of the other man's hand because you did this, you did this to him.]
[Calm down. Calm down. Breathe. Breathe.]
[But he isn't, and he can't. The most he manages is a small, panicked hiss:]
Please don't die.