Henry didn't interrupt the silence or attempt to prompt Mathias into anything. He simply sat, patient, and let the other man collect his thoughts. Sometimes it took a long while to get down to the meat of the matter, if the patient had done an effective enough job of burying the trauma. It took effort to get those thoughts out.
"You were in a high stress situation, to say the very least," Henry said calmly. "You did the best you could under the circumstances. No one would have expected you to know exactly what to do." He was not there to offer platitudes, though, so he left it at that. "What happened after you cut off Pablo's legs?"
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Date: 2009-06-19 07:06 pm (UTC)"You were in a high stress situation, to say the very least," Henry said calmly. "You did the best you could under the circumstances. No one would have expected you to know exactly what to do." He was not there to offer platitudes, though, so he left it at that. "What happened after you cut off Pablo's legs?"