"I am." Drizzt can't help but frown at her look and cross his arms, and he makes an incredibly valiant (and successful) effort to not pout, making a grumpy noise at the back of his throat. "But not so young. Not that young."
Except that he is, and the fact that he complains that he isn't only adds to the truth. Drizzt is a drow, and drow are like all elves in that the growth of their bodies comes well before their minds' truly mature. He's been ignoring that now for decades, refusing to understand it, because that would mean that so many in the world back home had wished to hate and murder a child. And that he was an orphan like Catti-brie, but without a Bruenor to take him in. Except the fact he was RIGHT THERE, DRIZZT, YOU DUMB BUTT. Drizzt cannot bear those truths, even now.
The only reasons he admits he's not fully grown at all now are because his father finds such great happiness in the fact he may have a childhood and that it is truly wonderful, as much as it's embarrassing to admit, to have a parent that's so protective and loving of him.
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Except that he is, and the fact that he complains that he isn't only adds to the truth. Drizzt is a drow, and drow are like all elves in that the growth of their bodies comes well before their minds' truly mature. He's been ignoring that now for decades, refusing to understand it, because that would mean that so many in the world back home had wished to hate and murder a child. And that he was an orphan like Catti-brie, but without a Bruenor to take him in.
Except the fact he was RIGHT THERE, DRIZZT, YOU DUMB BUTT.Drizzt cannot bear those truths, even now.The only reasons he admits he's not fully grown at all now are because his father finds such great happiness in the fact he may have a childhood and that it is truly wonderful, as much as it's embarrassing to admit, to have a parent that's so protective and loving of him.