"Goddamnit. Stop showing me up. I was never in a circus and I can do that though! So I guess I'm still awesome." He looks at the kid, his eyes a little unfocused as he smiles. "So you stole a pig. If you were at a circus, surely there was something else you could have used?"
"Stories are the best things ever! I don't know about boring, I like stories, but...I don't know, sometimes people are too miserable with them or don't think they're important? Not many, but some do."