For the record, I'm doing classes with Eleven. If you want, you can come join us — I know your sort, I subbed remedial Gen-Ed once or twice. If you're well-behaved, you can even get ice cream after.

—Yeah, I remember mentioning it. I didn't really expect it to become a thing. [ that feels like a lifetime ago now though. it'd been different though, because he'd at least been doing something. it may not have ended how they'd wanted it to end, it may not have even been anywhere near the best-case scenario, but they'd got robin connected, hadn't they? saved a few people. lost more, but—

they'd done what they could. now? he's just spent two weeks unconscious and he should have known better.

wait. "like you were then." ] Are you making me quote myself? I know I'm really great at pep talks, but for what it's worth, I talk enough that I don't need to start going down that route. I'm only thirty. If I start repeating myself, I'm basically doomed.

—That said, I'm still not sure what you're trying to say here. Yes, I made a comment about 'please don't take my deep-seated attachment to responsibility away from me', but I also mentioned wheatcakes and to date, no-one's made any for me. Both points still stand. I'm very attached to my notion of responsibility: that and the wheatcakes have definitely made me who I am today, alongside my annual visit to Shea Stadium to watch the Mets lose.

It's all character building.