So a full minute before he's on his knees and stacking the books into a neat pile. He'll pick them up later. But having them all in one place and ready to be picked up later is good enough for now. "Yeah, those can definitely get messy. But at least it's not also an extradition issue." People get super weird about extradition.
Then he hefts himself back to his feet, brushing off his knees and stepping into place in front of the newly opened book gap.
"Hi," he says. Again. Less questioning, but still probably too questioning for the situation. "So this is going well so far, I think."
Hawthorne is stuck, Gideon is Confused
So a full minute before he's on his knees and stacking the books into a neat pile. He'll pick them up later. But having them all in one place and ready to be picked up later is good enough for now. "Yeah, those can definitely get messy. But at least it's not also an extradition issue." People get super weird about extradition.
Then he hefts himself back to his feet, brushing off his knees and stepping into place in front of the newly opened book gap.
"Hi," he says. Again. Less questioning, but still probably too questioning for the situation. "So this is going well so far, I think."