[The explanation might help Pokey in understanding what to do better, but it also starts filling him with more uncertainty and concern about how well he himself will do.
He feels oddly behind on all of this. Like he should have learned this sometime or place before, and possibly could have in a normal world. He knows full well too that any kind of normalcy would be denied anyway.
Embarrassment seems not like the exact right word Pokey feels right now. It's not embarrassing going through this. It's. Intimate, in it's own right, learning this he guesses.]
Alright.
[Is his only response to John at first as the doctor talks. The boy isn't sullen but he has no idea what to actually say to anything he's being told. He keeps his eyes on the book right now, just because it's easier than looking at the man as they talk, or more like as John explains and Pokey listens.]
So like is. There anything I should be, I dunno. Worried about during this?
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He feels oddly behind on all of this. Like he should have learned this sometime or place before, and possibly could have in a normal world. He knows full well too that any kind of normalcy would be denied anyway.
Embarrassment seems not like the exact right word Pokey feels right now. It's not embarrassing going through this. It's. Intimate, in it's own right, learning this he guesses.]
Alright.
[Is his only response to John at first as the doctor talks. The boy isn't sullen but he has no idea what to actually say to anything he's being told. He keeps his eyes on the book right now, just because it's easier than looking at the man as they talk, or more like as John explains and Pokey listens.]
So like is. There anything I should be, I dunno. Worried about during this?