[ it's complicated, kiddo. ]

I need to tell you about a memory... Which is better than showing them unprompted. Like when I was younger than you are now... and I--

[ he is even more conflicted and unsure! and his sadness? there's more of that now. ]

I didn't get to do many things as a child. I wanted to see a lot of places, and experience a lot of things... I found a discarded book in the street one time, and it had pictures of things I had never seen before.