Not a child. Definitely not a child. I just turned fourteen last week -- that's firmly in teenager territory.
[Never let it be said that he's a bad liar. He's definitely well-practiced at it by now, and he's learned from some of the best. He makes it sound like he's more offended over being called a kid than anything, the way young teens sometimes are, not lying about the specific age itself.]
And I thought about that. They said they think no time passes back home and that means my family won't be worried. I'll just go back to the moment I left. The only part I don't like is that my sister Mabel isn't here. She'd love all this.
[Which gets back into the whole "not a normal kid" reaction. Because that's the same reaction he just had and it's not a normal kid reaction.]
[He shrugs.]
I know it's supposed to be dangerous and we might all possibly get murdered by evil supervillains but I've already dealt with way scarier things than this. And this time apparently I get superpowers instead of having to deal with it all without any.
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[Never let it be said that he's a bad liar. He's definitely well-practiced at it by now, and he's learned from some of the best. He makes it sound like he's more offended over being called a kid than anything, the way young teens sometimes are, not lying about the specific age itself.]
And I thought about that. They said they think no time passes back home and that means my family won't be worried. I'll just go back to the moment I left. The only part I don't like is that my sister Mabel isn't here. She'd love all this.
[Which gets back into the whole "not a normal kid" reaction. Because that's the same reaction he just had and it's not a normal kid reaction.]
[He shrugs.]
I know it's supposed to be dangerous and we might all possibly get murdered by evil supervillains but I've already dealt with way scarier things than this. And this time apparently I get superpowers instead of having to deal with it all without any.