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His dark brown eyesjust above aze touched, ht

"Anyway…" I said, steering the conversation back on course I willedminute "I want to knoent on inside your head while you were fighting the duel What exactly was it that caused the distress?"

He took a deep breath and then released it "It was the crowd I hadn’t counted on that I knew exactly what I was doing out there I had a plan and I would have won, but…" He shook his head "I hadn’t planned on all the faces and the noise"

"And Doug made it worse once he found out"

He nodded but didn’t say anything His hands fidgeted as they rested on his knees

"So does thatevents? Concerts?"

"No"

"Really? How do you see o see them at Ada movies that you don’t want to wait for? Like what about the new Star Wars movie?"

He shook his head "I can’t Even if it’s awhat thatto soroups of people would help get you used to it?"

He see the thought

"Okay…well, there are techniques you can use to help caler, I had really bad panic attacks They were usually brought on by loud noises, so I had problems with certain types ofsurprised "You’re afraid of loud noises? Why?"

I hesitated "Because…when I was little, the city I lived in was boaze rose slowly from my chin to my nose before it stopped

"You lived in Sarajevo?"

"Yes That’s where uess?"