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Asking questions, his father had said once, was dangerous.
Not angrily. Not even defensively. Just as a statement of fact. Because once you admit something is missing, people start watching you differently. Measuring pauses. Filling in silence for you. Deciding things on your behalf.
Ilya learned without realising he was learning.
He learned how to smooth over hesitation. How to keep conversations moving. How to make decisiveness sound natural, even when it was assembled on the spot.
At the time, it had seemed like nothing more than inheritance. A personality trait. A habit passed down.
Now, with his father gone, the pattern remained.
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Ilya has early-onset dementia and is in complete denial but then Shane notices x