[Sometimes, there is no need for Doppio to make assumptions; the call comes before anybody else arrives on the scene, and he's caught up in short order. Sometimes, he has to improvise, do his best to choose between fight or flight (and oh, how it wishes it were flight, or literally anything other than fight, every time), knowing that the choice he makes will likely dictate how much stickier his current predicament will get.
This occasion, he quickly realises, falls under the latter umbrella. He may be disoriented, but he knows Bruno Bucciarati when he sees him, and while he can't be certain he assumes that Bucciarati recognises him as well. The memories are still trickling in - he tracked down Secco, his customary luck kicked in, Bucciarati saved him but he was clearly unwell... If Bucciarati knows who he is, then that must have happened afterwards. Or was he bluffing from the very beginning? Either way, how did he find out? Was it something Doppio did?
It's hard to choose when he can't quite remember what terms they even parted on.]
M... Me?
[Depending on what Bucciarati knows, playing dumb may only make the situation worse, and Doppio doesn't even know what the situation is. He wasn't even near a beach before, was he? No, no, that had been in the morning, but then he got on a plane to--]
But this isn't Rome, [he mutters, genuinely lost.]
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This occasion, he quickly realises, falls under the latter umbrella. He may be disoriented, but he knows Bruno Bucciarati when he sees him, and while he can't be certain he assumes that Bucciarati recognises him as well. The memories are still trickling in - he tracked down Secco, his customary luck kicked in, Bucciarati saved him but he was clearly unwell... If Bucciarati knows who he is, then that must have happened afterwards. Or was he bluffing from the very beginning? Either way, how did he find out? Was it something Doppio did?
It's hard to choose when he can't quite remember what terms they even parted on.]
M... Me?
[Depending on what Bucciarati knows, playing dumb may only make the situation worse, and Doppio doesn't even know what the situation is. He wasn't even near a beach before, was he? No, no, that had been in the morning, but then he got on a plane to--]
But this isn't Rome, [he mutters, genuinely lost.]