He really, honestly, hasn't thought about it that much. It's a lot of effort and focus for only minor return, most of the time. "I could get stuff from across the room without getting up?"
"Because I care about promises, and it's too big and too vague, and it's stupid. Everybody hurts people. You hurt people, you're a soldier. But you want me to just promise never to, when neither of us knows what will happen tomorrow. You're - you're being a hypocrite, and a coward. So I won't promise and you can't make me. Give me my own will back or don't. I'll sit on the damned book like a chicken if I have to."
And then he disappears, book still clutched to his chest.
He is, as implied, holed up in his own room. He's not actually sitting on the book, but he's got on eye on it - while, actually, scrolling through his communicator.
"Fair's fair." He shrugs. There's no point pretending the boy hadn't had a valid point, that would be foolishness. "You might 'ave to protect yourself or someone else, or any number of other reasons."
"So 'ow about if you can use it to defend yourself or others, and if you see a need to use it to 'arm someone outside of those circumstances you come talk to me about it first? I want-" He pauses, mouth twisting a little- "I want you to think, lad, about what you want to do and why, not just react."
"I think you think about things quite a lot, but with a power like that it could be very easy to make a quick decision in the moment. I think my job is also to give you another perspective and 'elp you think about things in a diff'rent way."
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He really, honestly, hasn't thought about it that much. It's a lot of effort and focus for only minor return, most of the time. "I could get stuff from across the room without getting up?"
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This is, of course, a teenage yes.
"Not, like, mindreading. But other ways, some. You could phrase it so it only works on objects?" he counter-offers.
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"I won't."
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And then he disappears, book still clutched to his chest.
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Again: he's not promising.
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"Okay. Thank you."
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Any number.
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"Just because you don't like my decisions doesn't mean I didn't think about them."
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"Is that what you think I do? Just react?"
It's insulting. It...hurts, although he shies away from the thought.
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