"Look, it's diff'rent when you get older, aight? Right now, you gotta sleep. But later? You can't." He shrugged off the compliment, not used to being called smart or any approximation of it. He'd rather just ignore that he'd done anything, really, except make sure a kid didn't freeze to death. Even with his reputation to maintain, he couldn't let a kid die of the cold. That was just, well, rude.

"An' since yo' mom ain't here, if you wanna try the board, you can. It ain't really that hard t'do."