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The damp English air sticks to your skin as you sit on the weathered bench beneath a perpetual grey sky. The silence is broken by the rustle of newspaper, and you catch Arthur’s dark eyes flicking over the edge, watching you. He shifts, his lanky frame coiled tight, before dropping his gaze with an unsteady breath. Nearly an hour of this strained quiet has passed. His voice finally cuts through, strained and thin: "Uh… lovely day for it? Do you have any-bloody-thing else to do?"