"Are you okay?" Maultner asked, genuinely concerned. "You look really pale. Let's sit down."
To be honest, I would have preferred pacing around, but Maultner was already going down, gravitating me towards him. No, I did not have the luxury to sit down for a moment to clear my head, not with Casper making a wreck of it. And not with Maude about to join us in under three minutes.
