A small grin. "I'm not really an adult yet. I'm still just in high school. Sometimes in my world, high schoolers have to help fight the bad guys with the adults--but the difference is, the adults worry even about us. They're afraid for us sometimes, because they're afraid something bad will happen to us. So for us, even if we have the power to help, we're not made to, because we all have a choice--it's just a lot of us choose to."
He tilts his head.
"But then people my age have a few years on you. We've had time to just be kids. When I was your age, the most I worried about was homework and keeping my two best friends from fighting."
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A small grin. "I'm not really an adult yet. I'm still just in high school. Sometimes in my world, high schoolers have to help fight the bad guys with the adults--but the difference is, the adults worry even about us. They're afraid for us sometimes, because they're afraid something bad will happen to us. So for us, even if we have the power to help, we're not made to, because we all have a choice--it's just a lot of us choose to."
He tilts his head.
"But then people my age have a few years on you. We've had time to just be kids. When I was your age, the most I worried about was homework and keeping my two best friends from fighting."