For him the contact was like salving an itch that he hadn't realized existed until it was gone. He didn't like it at all, but he wasn't about to show anything about it either. He knew her by sight and that was all that there was to it, and she seemed to react to the sight of him in the same way. They hadn't anything funny with each other at least to test just how deep the bond went through pain or any other stimulus aside from prolonged separation.
"Now that was just dumb," he replied after the story with the raccoon, but then again... kids were really dumb. They didn't learn their smarts early unless they absolutely had to, and it was starting to shape up as one of those things where it was surprising she might have survived so long. Clearly she wasn't using her head much as a kid. "Let me guess, everything seemed like a good idea at the time and the consequences were never enough to make you realize just how dumb most of that stuff was after it had happened?"
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"Now that was just dumb," he replied after the story with the raccoon, but then again... kids were really dumb. They didn't learn their smarts early unless they absolutely had to, and it was starting to shape up as one of those things where it was surprising she might have survived so long. Clearly she wasn't using her head much as a kid. "Let me guess, everything seemed like a good idea at the time and the consequences were never enough to make you realize just how dumb most of that stuff was after it had happened?"