[This, he watches with a sense of pure fascination. These tiny, deft, precise cuts -- it looks easy, looks effortless, until the chunk of carrot blossoms into a delicate carving. And here he was, struggling just to peel it!
But that's the point. This is his older self. To cut the carrot so beautifully, so easily -- it's within his capabilities, or will be eventually. It isn't an impossible standard -- it's entirely possible, with the proof of it right before him.]
Wowww! Just like that... That's so cool!
[Cook was his hero before he knew -- now, it's a little weird, but in the end, still his hero. Just a hero he knows he can live up to.]
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But that's the point. This is his older self. To cut the carrot so beautifully, so easily -- it's within his capabilities, or will be eventually. It isn't an impossible standard -- it's entirely possible, with the proof of it right before him.]
Wowww! Just like that... That's so cool!
[Cook was his hero before he knew -- now, it's a little weird, but in the end, still his hero. Just a hero he knows he can live up to.]