I feel 'while' would be the connecting word here. Without it the sentence flops and it helps add onto it with the extra sentence part.
I sharpened your pencil. You were away.
'While' should be the conjunction.
Yes he did run away from darry
I think that the answer is A)as most judges are not warm and comforting whi;le all the others are just similes.
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24 is the conflict for this