( He exhales slowly — oh boy, this talk was not on his bingo card for today. )
Alright, settle in, junior, because I wanna tell you something.
( He ruffles a hand over his too-long hair, makes a mental note to dig out his clippers sometime soon, and then turns a studious eye on Will. )
Where I'm from... we have monsters, too. Me and my brother were raised to fight them, ever since we were little kids. There was a time, back when I was your age, where I felt the same way you do now. Stuff like that- normal people stuff, it wasn't for me, and it was pointless, and odds are I was gonna die before I ever needed to use anything I would've learned anyway. My brother, Sam... he's the smarter one, you know what he did?
( A beat for emphasis and then- )
He got out, and he went to law school. Stanford. Believe it or not, what he learned there's actually come in handy more than a few times in the field. The point I'm trying to make here is, don't live your life thinking it's gonna end next week. Don't let things you're interested in feel pointless. If you're strong, and you're smart, and you surround yourself with people who are as interested in keeping you alive as you are them? Who knows, you might live to be an old man that yells at teenagers and re-shingles roofs.
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Alright, settle in, junior, because I wanna tell you something.
( He ruffles a hand over his too-long hair, makes a mental note to dig out his clippers sometime soon, and then turns a studious eye on Will. )
Where I'm from... we have monsters, too. Me and my brother were raised to fight them, ever since we were little kids. There was a time, back when I was your age, where I felt the same way you do now. Stuff like that- normal people stuff, it wasn't for me, and it was pointless, and odds are I was gonna die before I ever needed to use anything I would've learned anyway. My brother, Sam... he's the smarter one, you know what he did?
( A beat for emphasis and then- )
He got out, and he went to law school. Stanford. Believe it or not, what he learned there's actually come in handy more than a few times in the field. The point I'm trying to make here is, don't live your life thinking it's gonna end next week. Don't let things you're interested in feel pointless. If you're strong, and you're smart, and you surround yourself with people who are as interested in keeping you alive as you are them? Who knows, you might live to be an old man that yells at teenagers and re-shingles roofs.