Jamie nodded -- partly to show that he acknowledged she said something, and partly to show that, on some level, he understood what she was saying -- because he didn't trust himself to reply to that directly without coming across as petty, a tactic he'd just realized wasn't going to get him -- or them, for that matter -- anywhere.
"You... do realize why, though, right?" he asked. "Why I've been... expediently exiting, to borrow your turn of phrase."
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"You... do realize why, though, right?" he asked. "Why I've been... expediently exiting, to borrow your turn of phrase."