Re: Lake - Janus/Atticus
"Selfless, isn't it? Giving up memories for other people?" he asked. Was still trying to make sense of Janus. The conversations he'd read on the forums only gave him so much insight. Wasn't a complete pictures. "Realize it's not about me, right? It's about the kid that the old man abandoned. Same old man that pissed you off. Wasn't me. Didn't commit to this kid. Like him. Will help how I can, but he's a lost kid. Could use someone in town. And I tried to head back. Old-man me just gets back on the boat and comes back here. Didn't do this. Just trying to make it OK for everyone involved." Met Janus' shrewd look with a grin, one that would mature into Atticus' lazy smile. "Can read. Argued about the deal on the forums. I read everything I could find." The smile wasn't youthful. He wasn't a teenager. Wasn't in his early twenties. Wasn't a kid, for all that he was younger than the Atticus Janus had known.