[He eyes her back with a fairly straight face, and the question earns something between a nod and a more uncertain tilt of his head. Well...]
--Yeah, guess it was pretty up there even back then. Not as much as I am now, but...way beyond everybody else my age then too, probably. [If one wants to get pedantic about it, anyway...
Still, as unaffected as he remains while he recounts all this, there's still a very faint air of something close to resignation in his tone now. Or at least, the sound of somebody that's trodden over this sort of topic many, many times in the past.] My body took a little while to actually catch up, though, so there was a bit of time where I was breaking things all the time. Everything would keep pissing me off...
[Really, he was an entirely normal-looking child otherwise. His childhood chill, however, was not...great....]
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--Yeah, guess it was pretty up there even back then. Not as much as I am now, but...way beyond everybody else my age then too, probably. [If one wants to get pedantic about it, anyway...
Still, as unaffected as he remains while he recounts all this, there's still a very faint air of something close to resignation in his tone now. Or at least, the sound of somebody that's trodden over this sort of topic many, many times in the past.] My body took a little while to actually catch up, though, so there was a bit of time where I was breaking things all the time. Everything would keep pissing me off...
[Really, he was an entirely normal-looking child otherwise. His childhood chill, however, was not...great....]