When I said nothing, he lowered his head for a second, and when he raised it he said, "Now that I know how powerful your effect is on me, I can tell you this. I will do everything I can to make sure nothing like that ever happens again."
He paused, so I said, "And the first question?"
"That’s harder. Sure, you pressed buttons. Hard. I didn’t take the time to consider that you hadn’t even known they were there, let alone that you hadn’t intended to push them. But that was part of the pain. I had expected that you would know they were there."
Again he paused. I asked, "And why do you think I didn’t know? Maybe because up to that point you’d taken great care to appear invulnerable? Maybe because we hadn’t known each other long enough for me to have a snowball’s chance in hell to see the pa
