He doesn't sound like he could care less about that or finds it even remotely convincing, instead taking a hit to his own leg by letting himself sway back and forth slowly on the balls of his feet. He can endure the ache for a moment like this.
"You're right that everything has a melting point. Everything bends eventually. But, what you were saying about your dear ol' dad and his relative adaptiveness?" he pauses at the angle that leans him closest to Tim for a moment, a playful but not friendly smile on his lips.
"It just occurs to me, you know, that the hardest lesson of all is learning that when you melt down a silver silver and reforge it into a knife, it will still never be as sturdy or up for the job as steel."
The corners of his mouth tip down into an over-performed sad shape.
"All I'm saying is, the lengths to which silver and steel go to in order to adapt, melt, and be reforged? They are markedly different."
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He doesn't sound like he could care less about that or finds it even remotely convincing, instead taking a hit to his own leg by letting himself sway back and forth slowly on the balls of his feet. He can endure the ache for a moment like this.
"You're right that everything has a melting point. Everything bends eventually. But, what you were saying about your dear ol' dad and his relative adaptiveness?" he pauses at the angle that leans him closest to Tim for a moment, a playful but not friendly smile on his lips.
"It just occurs to me, you know, that the hardest lesson of all is learning that when you melt down a silver silver and reforge it into a knife, it will still never be as sturdy or up for the job as steel."
The corners of his mouth tip down into an over-performed sad shape.
"All I'm saying is, the lengths to which silver and steel go to in order to adapt, melt, and be reforged? They are markedly different."