[ The cheese looks gooey, and that's before it's started melting. Not like labneh, but something like plastic, and the ugly orange color only lends credence to his suspicion that his father is going to feed him plastic on bread.
His fingers curl into the loose cotton of his pants, and his chin raises, resolute.
An al Ghul before all things. He can survive floppy, melting plastic on bread. ]
I trust you.
[ A flat-out lie, and he doesn't even bother to hide how unconvinced he is, sounding like he's waiting for his turn at the gallows. God, but the kid has sass, his earlier promise to his mother quickly becoming forgotten in the face of this bizarre punishment.
Well, if he was going to be punished, he was going to do something to actually earn it. ]
Depends. [ Boldly: ] I don't like reading Thoreau. He tries to sound so clever but he's just sitting there watching ants fight.
[ He understands why his mother chose Walden. They've discussed his points--
("Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.")
--and applied his philosophies to Damian's education, but the man just goes on and on about Nature. And, it seems, with this little burst of seeming rebellion, the kid really starts chattering, as if trying to get the rest out as quickly as possible with the breath he has before he has to stop. ]
Plato is okay, but he uses a lot of words I don't know how to translate, so it takes all day to get through a few pages. But out of everything, I like the stories of as-Sindibād al-Baḥri the best, because he gets to go on adventures.
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His fingers curl into the loose cotton of his pants, and his chin raises, resolute.
An al Ghul before all things. He can survive floppy, melting plastic on bread. ]
I trust you.
[ A flat-out lie, and he doesn't even bother to hide how unconvinced he is, sounding like he's waiting for his turn at the gallows. God, but the kid has sass, his earlier promise to his mother quickly becoming forgotten in the face of this bizarre punishment.
Well, if he was going to be punished, he was going to do something to actually earn it. ]
Depends. [ Boldly: ] I don't like reading Thoreau. He tries to sound so clever but he's just sitting there watching ants fight.
[ He understands why his mother chose Walden. They've discussed his points--
("Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.")
--and applied his philosophies to Damian's education, but the man just goes on and on about Nature. And, it seems, with this little burst of seeming rebellion, the kid really starts chattering, as if trying to get the rest out as quickly as possible with the breath he has before he has to stop. ]
Plato is okay, but he uses a lot of words I don't know how to translate, so it takes all day to get through a few pages. But out of everything, I like the stories of as-Sindibād al-Baḥri the best, because he gets to go on adventures.