Re: Call: Atticus M/Steve M
I'm impressed too. [Thinking aloud.] I don't know. Allen's emotions can be surface, and he prickles. I don't know that you have to do much of anything. The problem with trying to say the right thing, too, is you don't actually know what's "right" to someone else, and it can... bend you. Be polite, my ma would say, but speak your mind. You're the only one who knows it. Not that I think you're all that budgeable. [A smile, a shrug.] He'll ask me. Janus. Teddy already has. [The smile is definitely more shit-eating now, in his best Captain Liberty Sells War Bonds voice:] I believe in you, kid.