[He says it like it's whatever, kids scrape their knees and fall down and all of that plenty! But maybe he's not the best judge of this particular childhood behavior, considering how reckless he's historically been. He doesn't need to unpack that right now, here at this festival; those kids are just fine and Charles is fussing. Nice of him, but still fussy.
So he lets go of Charles' arm to give him a hand pat of his own, like, relax. It's fine. Fish time.]
Fish first, then we can walk around.
[He does a quick look around until he spots someone carrying a fish in a baggie, which is as good a guess as any for which direction the fish booth is in. Come, this way...]
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[He says it like it's whatever, kids scrape their knees and fall down and all of that plenty! But maybe he's not the best judge of this particular childhood behavior, considering how reckless he's historically been. He doesn't need to unpack that right now, here at this festival; those kids are just fine and Charles is fussing. Nice of him, but still fussy.
So he lets go of Charles' arm to give him a hand pat of his own, like, relax. It's fine. Fish time.]
Fish first, then we can walk around.
[He does a quick look around until he spots someone carrying a fish in a baggie, which is as good a guess as any for which direction the fish booth is in. Come, this way...]
And—I get to name the fish.