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Man, it seemed like she had an answer for everything. Then again, given the fact that she was the one who was all grown up and everything, perhaps she was truly the one who should have had everything figured out. And that's how adults struck him — they had everything all figured out. They made the rules, they did all the cool stuff. And when in doubt, they also handled all of the stuff that usually made little sense to someone of his likes. Either way, it was a place and a time that Pasha couldn't wait to get to, even though he hadn't really the slightest clue that a place and a time wasn't how it happened. The intricacies of life eluded him.

"No, not want," he said with a sigh. "I am. I'm gonna be." He fought the inclination to roll his eyes dramatically — that was something he expected Whittier to do. Not like he hadn't done it to Bazi a few times trying to get his way. "I already protect the borders and stuff. I learned from my dad," he went on to say before she could get a word in edgewise. If anything, he was steadfast in "tending" to the borders. It was a learning process, but to him he was already doing more than just acting out what he thought he needed to be.