You remember the first time you didn't finish an assignment because you realized it didn't matter, they weren't paying attention to your work anyway because they expected that sort of thing from you? Maybe even resented it? The way it was kind of frustrating until you made it a game for yourself and not the rest of them?

It's kind of like that.

I'll bet he would have failed at it too. I mean, there's a lot to be said about natural progression versus...what he was doing, which was like reading an old discarded imprint and using it for a handbook on dating. If it worked that way, we'd get more permanent imprints being married off. But if only one person grows and the other doesn't, or doesn't know how, it gets messy or so I think.