Chapter 82

As she had moved enough to be on her side, Julya stretched her hand that wore the ring towards me, and intertwined our fingers while I also stretched my arm, in a gesture of solidarity. The palm of my hand was much colder than hers, and I thought that would be enough advantage to show that I would be nervous. I didn't look at Flynn, but I knew, from the silence that followed between him and Joseph, that they had both heard my words. I just wished that Joseph didn't have enough knowledge to identify when a person lied by his tone of voice, because he was right about his youtube course on body language. I suffered from serious linguistic and gestural addictions when I was lying.

I rehearsed in front of the mirror each point that the technical expert in behavioral language reported to be a red light. Despite being a tool that would guide people to prevent them from getting into trouble, having such easy access to information allowed people like me to learn how to avoid certain gestures