Kenzie almost choked on her pasta with laughter. "Mao as the Coppertone baby? Wow. Yeah. That might be mutual." The idea of the drawing was a rather funny. Mao as the Coppertone baby. That would be interesting.
"Mm. We probably should lend him our ears. It would be good for him, and for Mao, if he knew there was someone he could talk to who would actually listen and have some understanding of what was going on." They could understand both sides of things, having been in Mao's place (in a manner of speaking) and in Tetsuo's since Wolf was interested in all varieties of people.