[The coldness in it gives him pause, unable to work out just what he'd done wrong--
(what happened, was it something I said-)
-and without any clue what the reason for it was, Ryan has no idea how to respond to that, either. There's confusion and hurt in his own thoughts, and he doesn't follow John down the row of books, left standing there staring after him.]
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[The coldness in it gives him pause, unable to work out just what he'd done wrong--
(what happened, was it something I said-)
-and without any clue what the reason for it was, Ryan has no idea how to respond to that, either. There's confusion and hurt in his own thoughts, and he doesn't follow John down the row of books, left standing there staring after him.]