It's important to be friends with very different people. Tony has historically had a fraught time with anyone too much like himself.
"No, that was my little project. Skyscrapers were, just, so in vogue in noughties. But there was a house in the upper west side until I got moved off to boarding school. Which is like the Circles? But instead of being for kids with magic its for kids you hated having around."
He lifts his coffee, amends, "Sorry, reflex. Weird childhood. Mom and dad were fine. Anyway, I think we converted it to a heritage site sometime in '98."
Is this alienating? Defensive rapid patter of potentially meaningless information hits different here, he thinks, and he kind of shrugs across at Ellis.
"To summarise," carries a note of self-awareness, "no. But I grew up in this city, anyway."
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It's important to be friends with very different people. Tony has historically had a fraught time with anyone too much like himself.
"No, that was my little project. Skyscrapers were, just, so in vogue in noughties. But there was a house in the upper west side until I got moved off to boarding school. Which is like the Circles? But instead of being for kids with magic its for kids you hated having around."
He lifts his coffee, amends, "Sorry, reflex. Weird childhood. Mom and dad were fine. Anyway, I think we converted it to a heritage site sometime in '98."
Is this alienating? Defensive rapid patter of potentially meaningless information hits different here, he thinks, and he kind of shrugs across at Ellis.
"To summarise," carries a note of self-awareness, "no. But I grew up in this city, anyway."