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"I am-" It was the start of a kneejerk response, mercifully reined in before Kaiser could let it get away from him. The rest came with less insistence, a quick change of direction. "... trying not to glower. I'm sorry."
In actuality, he had been trying to look as though he wasn't standing under his own personal raincloud, like the guilt wasn't eating away at him yet again. Still. Resting Gloom Face made it complicated, and overcompensation could be far too easy a trap to fall into. Didn't help that memorials were a source of marrow-deep discomfort.
Kaiser ultimately didn't have to try all that hard to un-glower his expression. His boss' comment to the garden at large, so close to tripping his temper only seconds ago, elicited the tiniest of smiles. Just for a moment, though, because few other people here seemed to be in much of a smiling mood. "I like the statue," Kaiser said to Mrs James, though it sounded like a stupid comment to make, once it was out. Like, sure, there was that whole war thing, and a battle, and all those dead people, but hey, got a neat statue out of the bargain.
He'd just be shutting up now too.
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