[ Oh, he's pretty sure she's going to hit a lot of nerves. That was sort of the point and problem with this whole conversation anyway. He probably does try and jump at least once, when she finds something particularly either sensitive or simply unused to being noticed, because he's reactive and animated and both of those adjectives result in jumping when you're being explored to such a degree. She's just as much a scientist as he is, when she feels like it - very thorough, very write-that-down and remember-it-later. ]
I could have. I didn't want to give it to them. [ But he knew how to do it. It was one of the turning points - to be cliched about the whole thing - in their relationship. There weren't many of them, but when the younger realized he could outstrip the older? It was a dangerous moment. A shift in power typically is. ] It defeated the point of fighting them in the first place.
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I could have. I didn't want to give it to them. [ But he knew how to do it. It was one of the turning points - to be cliched about the whole thing - in their relationship. There weren't many of them, but when the younger realized he could outstrip the older? It was a dangerous moment. A shift in power typically is. ] It defeated the point of fighting them in the first place.