[It's less a platitude, and more sympathy: because he understands the urge to fly off the handle, he really does. Pointlessly frightening this many people, a lot of them students, possibly some younger than him; he could be properly angry about it, if he let himself, but...
Maybe it's shellshock, or just the recognition that taking it out on his phone won't change anything. (You can't change anything, help anyone, you have no weapons, nothing, nothing, nothing.)
The next message comes after a minute, maybe two:]
maybe they have rules, that they need to follow. just not ours.
[He remembers a brief conversation about that, that neither party probably took seriously. But it's something.]
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[It's less a platitude, and more sympathy: because he understands the urge to fly off the handle, he really does. Pointlessly frightening this many people, a lot of them students, possibly some younger than him; he could be properly angry about it, if he let himself, but...
Maybe it's shellshock, or just the recognition that taking it out on his phone won't change anything. (You can't change anything, help anyone, you have no weapons, nothing, nothing, nothing.)
The next message comes after a minute, maybe two:]
maybe they have rules, that they need to follow. just not ours.
[He remembers a brief conversation about that, that neither party probably took seriously. But it's something.]