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[runs]

So, how do you deal with having had a stupid overlay?

[The agent was just disturbing. Mostly because she was so much older than Kitty, so it wasn't even so much an alternative reality as a possible future.]

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[flatteries]

I could dye my hair pink! And drink a lot of milk! [ It's a little too late for that when there's not much left of your growth spurt years, Inigo. And that's also some very wild expectations of what a few glasses of milk might do. ]

Anyone can make an effort, even if it's something small.

[runs]

If you grew like that from drinking milk I would be way taller than I am.

And there are things that you can and things that you can't make an effort on, and it's important to know the difference. [She might not always judge the difference right, but at least she knows that it exists?]

[flatteries]

Maybe you just don't drink enough of it! [ Definitely kid-level arguments here... ] Besides, I've done the impossible before. It just takes willpower!

[ And a magic dragon sometimes.

But still. :( ]

[runs]

If I'd drink more I would throw up. [Funny how that is barely ever a concern outside of this argument...]

And what have you done that was so impossible?

[flatteries]

[ Well, this is a dilemma. Inigo was pretty committed to not really sharing many details about his own world and what he did in it, but losing an argument with a little kid is also super embarrassing. Maybe if he just.. doesn't involve his personal circumstances.. ]

I travelled through time.

[runs]

And that's supposed to be impossible?

[Time travel - certain types and degrees of it, at least - are a very normal thing for a Changeling. Not a nice thing, but nowhere close to impossible.]

[flatteries]

Where I come from it is.

[ He knows it's not that impressive compared to all the world-hopping they do here, okay.. But it's new for him! ]

We have magic, but it's more the "flinging at enemies during battle" kind of magic than anything that'd help you travel through time.

[runs]

So how did you travel though time if it's normally impossible?

[Implied: I'm sure you aren't good enough to have done it by yourself, and I'm faintly doubting that you really would have more than accidentally participated in something as big as 'technically impossible'.]

[flatteries]

Why are you being so doubtful? [ Because he sure is catching onto that implication!! If not just because Inigo is actually insecure as all hell, and those sort of implications haunt him daily. ]

The only reason Naga was able to help us travel through time was since me and my friends had the willpower for it. Not just anyone could've done that!

[runs]

Uh-huh.

So what did all you willpower-y people have to go through time for?

[flatteries]

[ .. He should've seen that question coming, huh. ]

Does it matter?