[This child, though. Was she always like this? Or, given that she can be this age and still know him, are things more mixed up in her head than it seems at first glance...?]
...mm. Miss Ange is wise, though that's a sad sort of thing to understand so young.
[Break has no problem parroting her third person speech right back at her. He often uses it himself, deferentially. Handing down his cane to Baltus, who is not so un-doggy that he does not love to carry large sticks, he settles Ange in on his hip and aims for the back yard.]
That's why it's so important that people know and understand...just how far you'll go on their behalf. Then, if ever you fail to keep a promise, your precious people will be able to say to themselves -- "he couldn't," instead of, "he didn't". The latter is very different, you know...?
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...mm. Miss Ange is wise, though that's a sad sort of thing to understand so young.
[Break has no problem parroting her third person speech right back at her. He often uses it himself, deferentially. Handing down his cane to Baltus, who is not so un-doggy that he does not love to carry large sticks, he settles Ange in on his hip and aims for the back yard.]
That's why it's so important that people know and understand...just how far you'll go on their behalf. Then, if ever you fail to keep a promise, your precious people will be able to say to themselves -- "he couldn't," instead of, "he didn't". The latter is very different, you know...?