He is. As you may imagine at first I wasn't too interested in taking along a child -- but the anomaly that caused people to gain powers didn't care about things like age, and my superiors didn't seem to think him being a child was an issue.
[There even have been Contractors who were born as one, meaning they weren't ever human at any point. Rough world, his is!]
But it turned out to be a good idea. July is indispensable.
[And lucky enough to be the only one of this team of three who survives to the end of canon, really]
[He's heard similar sentiments before, about age and limitations--but they never land quite right with him, due to his extremely limited experiences. It won't ever make sense to a sword whose master was a young prodigy who began training at 9 years old, after all.
He smiles at that, though.]
I'm glad you can rely on him like that.
[But the bubble hasn't freed them yet, so... in exchange, November can have this memory.]
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He is. As you may imagine at first I wasn't too interested in taking along a child -- but the anomaly that caused people to gain powers didn't care about things like age, and my superiors didn't seem to think him being a child was an issue.
[There even have been Contractors who were born as one, meaning they weren't ever human at any point. Rough world, his is!]
But it turned out to be a good idea. July is indispensable.
[And lucky enough to be the only one of this team of three who survives to the end of canon, really]
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He smiles at that, though.]
I'm glad you can rely on him like that.
[But the bubble hasn't freed them yet, so... in exchange, November can have this memory.]