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With a small smile, Jake let his mind wander for a moment, eager to try and read these books and look for schtuff that might interest him. At the question, the boy looked a little lost and thought really hard about how he thought about it.
"I... I ggguess..." Jake looked up at Truebridge relatively blandly, no real emotion on his face, just... a childish innocence. "After that... that evil ggguy last term... and all the ssstuff he made me and LouAnn and other kkkids do... I got interested."
Oh... and he couldn't forget. "And Tttibi left bbbecause of all the bbbad stuff, and I thought, if I underssstood it, I cccould protect him. And he mmmight... come bbback."
He really did believe that. Despite the arguments he'd had with the boy. "I mmmean, he was my only rrreal friend and I shhhould have kept him sssafe."
True story.
"And... ssstuff."
"In this topic in particular or defense in a general sense? I'm afraid I fail to see how this particular subject applied to that situation." Which really, Truebridge still blamed Lupa for. She'd been so selfish.
"That is admirable and understandable that you feel that way, and I'm sure you know that really it is not your fault, no blame lies on your shoulders for any of it, but I won't go into that. As for friends, well, I always found it difficult to make them myself but they tend to come in their own time, I find." He somehow had more than two now.
Strange.