About halfway through lunch, he suddenly got quiet. He toyed with his food like he had no interest in it at all. Sometimes he looked at it like he wasn’t sure why he ordered it in the first place. Occasionally he would look up and watch other people or stare at some blank space on the wall somewhere. It didn’t look like there was anything going on in his mind.

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