[Quick, polite "Thank you, sir -- 'sorry if it's inconvenient... -- "
He hears someone opening the door and turns his head up to attention - and then he hears the door, and the simple unexpectedness of it sends a crawling under his shoulders, he edges a step back automatically -
Then a flat crash and shattering crash shoots that both ways vertical into rigidity and his nerves ringing like a whack to a bell.]
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He hears someone opening the door and turns his head up to attention - and then he hears the door, and the simple unexpectedness of it sends a crawling under his shoulders, he edges a step back automatically -
Then a flat crash and shattering crash shoots that both ways vertical into rigidity and his nerves ringing like a whack to a bell.]
Was that - was that -- was that the door...?!