A THOUSAND REASONS To LEAVE
Adrian replied.
Adrain met his father’s eyes, gray like his own, like Lydia’s and their mother, his mother's own was warm and Lydia’s were sharp and quick,but his father own were the grey of deep water,still,unreadable. The kind of eyes that gave nothing away because they had decided long ago that giving things away was a weakness.
Adrian had spent his entire adult life learning not to give things away.
He was aware ,sitting here now,meant that he had already given something away. Not to the camera, not to the twelve thousand people who had watched the video. But to himself the moment he had looked across a crowded room and felt something shift.