[Ten minutes right? He waits for it to warm up, still slapping the envelope in his palm.]
I can learn, but all of the skills I am born with are the skills that aid liars and thieves. You're asking me to be an honest man when we get back. That might be hard. [He's mostly kidding. He knows he wants to try and be better. However he pauses then as they wait for the fire to kick in.]
...I can't be with you forever. [It's a quiet sentence and something he doesn't want to think on. Logically speaking he knows he can't stay with Adam forever. Things don't last forever, and people definitely don't last forever. But at the same time he's not sure how to deal with a world that isn't his own and without Adam anyway. He could figure it out. He's always been one to adapt. But maybe he doesn't want to.] Never been to Cambridge though. Annabeth told me about it when I asked her about the school once. [His gaze slides up from the envelope back to Adam.] Mr. Chase is a Harvard grad, too.
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I can learn, but all of the skills I am born with are the skills that aid liars and thieves. You're asking me to be an honest man when we get back. That might be hard. [He's mostly kidding. He knows he wants to try and be better. However he pauses then as they wait for the fire to kick in.]
...I can't be with you forever. [It's a quiet sentence and something he doesn't want to think on. Logically speaking he knows he can't stay with Adam forever. Things don't last forever, and people definitely don't last forever. But at the same time he's not sure how to deal with a world that isn't his own and without Adam anyway. He could figure it out. He's always been one to adapt. But maybe he doesn't want to.] Never been to Cambridge though. Annabeth told me about it when I asked her about the school once. [His gaze slides up from the envelope back to Adam.] Mr. Chase is a Harvard grad, too.