Looks like you're right about that. [He shifts his weight from foot to foot, restless. Long-ingrained mistrust of organized authority makes his presence here feel a bit like spying on the enemy--or the people he might come to butt heads with. Lowly:] That's going to be a problem.
[A predictable one, but a problem nonetheless. Though he looks out at the crowd, he keeps his voice pitched for Scarlett's ears only.]
I'm wondering how many times this has happened already. How many groups in the past had this idea. If spending time talking about how to run things had worked, there'd be more of them left to show for it--and you notice who's not here?
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[A predictable one, but a problem nonetheless. Though he looks out at the crowd, he keeps his voice pitched for Scarlett's ears only.]
I'm wondering how many times this has happened already. How many groups in the past had this idea. If spending time talking about how to run things had worked, there'd be more of them left to show for it--and you notice who's not here?
[Will. That's telling to his inner cynic.]