[ what, no, you can't just foist him off on someone else. ;; that happens enough already ]
Really? [ That got his attention, although sort of in the 'you're dashing a good percentage of my dreams and hopes here' way. He stops looking at her after a minute, looking instead somewhere more neutral, like the thing he was just putting together. After another couple of minutes, he starts to work on it again, but his demeanor has changed. He's a little quieter. ] Because everybody always says 'No, Tony. You can when you're older.' Or, 'When you're a little bigger,' or 'When you know a little more about it,' but I already know more than most of them and these screws are all tiny so I don't see why I need to be bigger or why I have to go to boarding school when I could learn just as much at home and not have to do all the boring stuff I'm not interested in anyway. [ He was running out of breath towards the end and stops to suck in another one, still working, but after he does, he doesn't continue. He thought he was going to, but he just bites down whatever else he was going to say and works quietly for a couple of minutes. Then, rapid shift, he looks back over at her with a bright look on his face, kind of excited. ] Hey, how's this? I changed one thing, it'll be more efficient this way. It looks like this place is kind of... Crappy, so, uh, this should draw less power for the same output. I think? Do you want to make sure?
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Really? [ That got his attention, although sort of in the 'you're dashing a good percentage of my dreams and hopes here' way. He stops looking at her after a minute, looking instead somewhere more neutral, like the thing he was just putting together. After another couple of minutes, he starts to work on it again, but his demeanor has changed. He's a little quieter. ] Because everybody always says 'No, Tony. You can when you're older.' Or, 'When you're a little bigger,' or 'When you know a little more about it,' but I already know more than most of them and these screws are all tiny so I don't see why I need to be bigger or why I have to go to boarding school when I could learn just as much at home and not have to do all the boring stuff I'm not interested in anyway. [ He was running out of breath towards the end and stops to suck in another one, still working, but after he does, he doesn't continue. He thought he was going to, but he just bites down whatever else he was going to say and works quietly for a couple of minutes. Then, rapid shift, he looks back over at her with a bright look on his face, kind of excited. ] Hey, how's this? I changed one thing, it'll be more efficient this way. It looks like this place is kind of... Crappy, so, uh, this should draw less power for the same output. I think? Do you want to make sure?