[Newt doesn't make it very far. He stops as soon as he hears the other door start to open. He's not sure why. He's done playing this game with Hermann, constantly rebreaking a bone that never healed properly to begin with. And he doesn't want Hermann to see him like this, shaking and misty-eyed and scared, god he's so scared. He's going to die tonight. He has accepted this as fact.
And he doesn't expect round two of this conversation to go any better. Or maybe it's round three, if he's counting their post-trial conversation. Or, really, they're up to some basically infinite number of conversations at this point. It's not like they're ever really talking about this issue they keep dancing around. This one will be another drop in the bucket. The last drop, maybe, but just more of the same.
He turns around anyway. It's stupid, probably, but he's never been the type to give up hoping just because it would be the rational thing to do.
Suffice to say that Hermann's words really do take him by surprise.]
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And he doesn't expect round two of this conversation to go any better. Or maybe it's round three, if he's counting their post-trial conversation. Or, really, they're up to some basically infinite number of conversations at this point. It's not like they're ever really talking about this issue they keep dancing around. This one will be another drop in the bucket. The last drop, maybe, but just more of the same.
He turns around anyway. It's stupid, probably, but he's never been the type to give up hoping just because it would be the rational thing to do.
Suffice to say that Hermann's words really do take him by surprise.]
Which part, exactly?