Fan Casting Two Lines - Part 2 in Strange Tales

- ...Do you happen to know where Kamar-Taj is? - I thought you knew where you were going. - [He sighs to avoid losing his patience] MAYBE...I don't know entirely. - [Smile] I'll take that as a cry for help. - For you to be so inspired to make jokes about me, sir... - Perhaps where you come from this seems offensive [he stands up] but I would call it just...observations. Like you having a serious problem with the word "help," and perhaps with human interaction. - I have no problem with that word, and I'm not antisocial, for your information. - [Laughs] On the contrary, there are those who prefer to talk to animals than to people, but I wouldn't call it that. - With what... - Tell me, my son. Why do you want to get to Kamar-Taj? - I had an accident that damaged my hands, and that's why I can't operate on anyone. - And you work alone? - 🤨 Many times I would very much like to, but I didn't have that privilege. - I don't know if this sounds honest or like a rant. - Listen here, I'm not looking for a psychologist, do you know where that damn place is or not know?! - ...... - [Stephen at this moment seems tired after shouting] as he tries to compose himself, but this moment is not ignored by his listener. - ......Self-defense. - What? - Your anger at this moment is nothing more than that...as well as the rest of what you prefer to demonstrate. - I don't... - Our eyes always betray these things, doctor. Even more so if such defense begins to give way, when mere survival is no longer enough. - ..... - When a truth from the past begins to be treated as a law of the present, it is difficult to say whether this helps more than it corrupts us from within. Trauma disguises itself as personality so as not to be questioned.