Given the, uh... the whole sternness of this woman, the aloofness of that second image, and the quite severe topic at hand, Phil comes to the conclusion that maybe he should probably not make mention of... this? At some point he'll have to ask--if they're stuck living in the same space, he'd prefer to know--but. Not now. It feels improper.
So, despite his uneasy glancing at her second image, instead he addresses what he's actually being told.
"That's... terrible. I'm very sorry for him. Yes, I do consider myself fortunate, knowing that it could have been worse--" (like tentacles, Jesus, he'd heard krakens and jellyfish were an option for some people) "--and that I got a gift out of it. I don't make much use of it, though. I don't usually have a reason to fly, and I have sort of a problem with heights."
A "problem," he says, as if he hadn't repeatedly dropped himself from five stories up until it became routine. It would've been higher if Punxsutawney had any taller buildings.
cw for implications of suicide
Given the, uh... the whole sternness of this woman, the aloofness of that second image, and the quite severe topic at hand, Phil comes to the conclusion that maybe he should probably not make mention of... this? At some point he'll have to ask--if they're stuck living in the same space, he'd prefer to know--but. Not now. It feels improper.
So, despite his uneasy glancing at her second image, instead he addresses what he's actually being told.
"That's... terrible. I'm very sorry for him. Yes, I do consider myself fortunate, knowing that it could have been worse--" (like tentacles, Jesus, he'd heard krakens and jellyfish were an option for some people) "--and that I got a gift out of it. I don't make much use of it, though. I don't usually have a reason to fly, and I have sort of a problem with heights."
A "problem," he says, as if he hadn't repeatedly dropped himself from five stories up until it became routine. It would've been higher if Punxsutawney had any taller buildings.