A wilted pale flower rests on an empty wooden chair in a softly lit blue room.

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Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. "I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply.

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Arthur sits down, looks up and says he had thought the other person dead. The simple statement gives a striking expectation a restrained expression. His gestures and brief words register an encounter that challenges what he believed, without explaining here how that belief arose.

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