Chapter 79

About the time they were checking out an old barn that they actually had to make a pretty good trek to get to, Nathan started feeling antsy that Solrin wasn’t talking. Nathan couldn’t think of anything else to ask about nachs so the conversation had lulled some time ago. He really hated long awkward silences.

“So, uhh…” he started in, surprised when Solrin suddenly turned to him.

“Nathan, may I…” He trailed, realizing he had spoken over the top of Nathan’s words. “Sorry, you were going to say something?”

“Nah,” Nathan smiled crookedly, “I was just gonna small-talk, man. What were you gonna ask?”

Solrin nodded, more to himself, which he seemed to do a lot whenever he was unsure of what to say, which also seemed to be often. “Oh, I…I was just…wondering.” He paused there, as if that was a suitable place for his sentence to stop, just staring at Nathan again. Then he bit his lip and turned around to continue searching the barn. “Never mind.”