"He was. I wish you could have met him in person. And mother. She was kind and caring too. A lot like father, except she kept telling me that it was okay to put family and friends first depending on the situation." Hearing the comment about the dollar, Leo actually laughed. "Let's say when I was a kid a dollar would have bought me about a month's worth of candy depending on what all I bought and how much I ate."
He ran a hand through his hair and thought. "My first charge... They started me off sort of easy. It was a young man, probably about your age. His older brother had been killed in France early on in the war and he was determined to get revenge. The Elders instructed me to basically get him off the vengeance path given he was a future whitelighter. It took several months but he finally started listening."