[He doesn't doubt it, and to be honest he really wouldn't care much even if he did realize anything was amiss. Either way, it doesn't stop him from rolling his eyes.]
That's still not even adult age where I come from, and I've been told that my world has younger standards than most.
[He at least has the right to be offended if anyone says he's too young for anything. He's been past adult age back home for two years now, and running a whole damn country in the meantime. There are men twice his age who haven't done half as much.]
Regardless, you're a bit too trusting for someone apparently used to messes like this. What makes you so sure they're right about how time flows back home?
[It says a lot, though -- perhaps not to Dipper, but to anyone who's been around to know him a bit longer -- that he's saying "right" instead of "telling the truth" now. Still forever skeptical, but maybe he's been at least somewhat convinced of the Legion's good intentions.]
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That's still not even adult age where I come from, and I've been told that my world has younger standards than most.
[He at least has the right to be offended if anyone says he's too young for anything. He's been past adult age back home for two years now, and running a whole damn country in the meantime. There are men twice his age who haven't done half as much.]
Regardless, you're a bit too trusting for someone apparently used to messes like this. What makes you so sure they're right about how time flows back home?
[It says a lot, though -- perhaps not to Dipper, but to anyone who's been around to know him a bit longer -- that he's saying "right" instead of "telling the truth" now. Still forever skeptical, but maybe he's been at least somewhat convinced of the Legion's good intentions.]