[It's really a lucky thing that she's as entrenched in the flow of this conversation as she is, or it might start to catch up with her, the absurdity of the fact that this Yoda-esque wisdom is coming at her from a weird little kid just a few years over half her age.
Except that for reasons she can't seem to explain, Damian gets it. He's managing to get things that she's not used to people getting. And more importantly, he's getting them in a way that keeps emotions carefully at bay without eliminating them altogether — the right level of calm rationality without tipping too far into superiority, lecturing, or condescension.
Not for the first time, she really wonders about this kid. What made him like this. None of this seems like an act, or like he's parroting something he heard somewhere else. Right now he reads as almost unsettlingly genuine, and that's the kind of thing that makes a smart person stop and wonder how so much worldly wisdom might've gotten packed into such a relatively young person.
That's semi-rhetorical. She's got a pretty good idea; there are only so many things that can change a person that quickly, after all.]
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Except that for reasons she can't seem to explain, Damian gets it. He's managing to get things that she's not used to people getting. And more importantly, he's getting them in a way that keeps emotions carefully at bay without eliminating them altogether — the right level of calm rationality without tipping too far into superiority, lecturing, or condescension.
Not for the first time, she really wonders about this kid. What made him like this. None of this seems like an act, or like he's parroting something he heard somewhere else. Right now he reads as almost unsettlingly genuine, and that's the kind of thing that makes a smart person stop and wonder how so much worldly wisdom might've gotten packed into such a relatively young person.
That's semi-rhetorical. She's got a pretty good idea; there are only so many things that can change a person that quickly, after all.]
I make someone happy.
[Another fractured silence.]
Just by existing, I mean. Without even trying.