It was "generous" of them to let me use magic at all.
[Now he has an appetite. He takes one of the walnuts and slams it onto the tabletop with a little too much force, which is cathartic but also makes his hand hurt, and rolls it around in mulish silence until the shell has more or less crumbled away along with most of the nut. He's too exhausted to be embarrassed by it, but it occurs to him that maybe he doesn't really want to try and open the rest of these by hand for no reason than pure pride.]
...Do you have a knife?
[He isn't sure which answer he is most afraid of: yes, which means Kalim has in fact been handling knives without supervision, or no, which means Jamil probably will need to have Kalim open his fucking walnuts for him for the rest of the night.]
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It was "generous" of them to let me use magic at all.
[Now he has an appetite. He takes one of the walnuts and slams it onto the tabletop with a little too much force, which is cathartic but also makes his hand hurt, and rolls it around in mulish silence until the shell has more or less crumbled away along with most of the nut. He's too exhausted to be embarrassed by it, but it occurs to him that maybe he doesn't really want to try and open the rest of these by hand for no reason than pure pride.]
...Do you have a knife?
[He isn't sure which answer he is most afraid of: yes, which means Kalim has in fact been handling knives without supervision, or no, which means Jamil probably will need to have Kalim open his fucking walnuts for him for the rest of the night.]