If she’s still around then, I’ll have to do that! [Grins, going quiet.] Uh, about visiting, actually… [How to break this news.]
Ulric, what is it? [His tone turns serious almost immediately, worried.] Has something happened?
No, no, everything is fine. [After all these years it was so easy to recognize that look on his dad’s face, that tone in his voice.] Nothing bad’s happened. It’s, uh… kinda the opposite.
The opposite? [Poor guy, it takes him a moment to catch on after being rattled like that.] Ulric, maybe you’d better tell me everything. From the beginning.
Jack Maple 