Re: Near the treeline: Jack P & Newt P
"Can I ask why?" Newt didn't need any excuse, really, but he did wonder why Jack didn't feel like it. His understanding of addiction'd formed through the omnipresent pressure of their father's gambling. Like carbon, over time it'd changed its shape and structure, but it was still very much the product of outside forces acting upon it.
There were several aspects of Newt's personality that a more myopic person would attribute to obsessive, if not addictive. It'd been rather a problem when he was a child, his consuming interest in animals of all kinds, his rapid consumption (and regurgitation) of facts at the expense of nearly everything else. He would become more than distraught when he was kept indoors and he'd spent an entire summer once, transporting dirt inside to a wardrobe, so he could make a space for himself, if he needed it. It'd not ended well, of course, when he was found out. ...But, did he have trouble with addiction? "I don't think so. Erm. My life is rather bend around the one obsession I have. I don't know that that counts. I've always been careful about drinking, erm, and gambling, fearing I'd fall into it, if I didn't." But, he was a risk-taker and he was often impulsive, and those behaviors he'd not curbed.