Oh dear gods, he was beginning to sound like Claire.
this is very interesting considering what hero just said a page ago about knowing what/who he is.
Maybe we are starting to see a humanization of hero: he is transcending his status as character and embracing himself as a “living” thing. because humans change and adapt all the time. we acquire traits from those around us, we pick up slang from those who repeat it around us. but mostly, we are a mixture of those who raised us and interacted with us in our formative years. In Hero’s case, this was Claire and Brevity during the chaotic first novel and now his tenure as assistant to the librarian.
