"He must do stuff like this to take things off his mind, she decided. Focusing his entire mind on menial tasks to keep him from thinking too hard on what really concerns him. Problem is…if he never focuses on problems that he doesn’t want to think about, they’ll simply go unsolved. That must be why he constantly settles for so little: because he’s more comfortable dealing with the consequences of a problem than with the problem itself. But there are some problems that simply don’t go away with a single consequence. Like him and his father…"

EVA ff