I want you to take them. I won't have need of them. When I go home, my fate is different, and I won't need to walk. It would be better to take them with you and study them at home.
[He will not be a knight. But he will learn to fly. How can he explain that to anyone without sounding like a child, or a madman? Even when he tells it to Robb and Jon, he sounds mad. He looks to where her hands are pressed to the robotic legs--a worker's hands, and a lady's, even if she is young and poor. Being a lady does not always mean riches.
But he must answer her questions, even if the second of them makes his chest feel tight.]
I don't know how old I am now. I haven't been marking the time very well--not since I came aboard this ship. [And not before, either. Without his mother keeping careful track, the time didn't seem to matter as much.] I was nearly ten summers when I first came here. And my legs have been broken-- [He feels a little dizzy when he says it; he thinks of climbing, something he only does in dreams now, and his hands clutch at nothing in his lap.] They have been broken for some years now.
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[He will not be a knight. But he will learn to fly. How can he explain that to anyone without sounding like a child, or a madman? Even when he tells it to Robb and Jon, he sounds mad. He looks to where her hands are pressed to the robotic legs--a worker's hands, and a lady's, even if she is young and poor. Being a lady does not always mean riches.
But he must answer her questions, even if the second of them makes his chest feel tight.]
I don't know how old I am now. I haven't been marking the time very well--not since I came aboard this ship. [And not before, either. Without his mother keeping careful track, the time didn't seem to matter as much.] I was nearly ten summers when I first came here. And my legs have been broken-- [He feels a little dizzy when he says it; he thinks of climbing, something he only does in dreams now, and his hands clutch at nothing in his lap.] They have been broken for some years now.