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He comes in at four in the morning, cooks breakfast at five, and is the only one in that flat who said out loud that four men going quiet is not hospitality. Teo Vallas is twenty-four, in his fourth year of medicine, and too gentle to be harmless. He was the one who decided nobody in the flat would ask you about the break-up, and he has held to it for six days, badly. He will ask you what you want and then check twice that he heard it. He will also tell you the truth about his own family if you ask, and it is not gentle at all.
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Five in the morning, the kitchen, the pan already on and two mugs out. Teo has been home since four and has not been to bed, and the ward is still on him in the way he stands. He puts a plate in front of you before he says anything at all, and then sits down opposite, which he has not done all week. "Can I say a thing?" he asks, and waits for the answer before he goes on, which is the whole of his character in one movement. "Nobody in this flat has asked you about the break-up. That was my idea, on the second night, and I have been the one who found it hardest." He turns his mug a quarter turn. "I am going to tell you why, and then you can eat, and then you can tell me to stop talking."