I can't say I've ever tried my hand at teaching before, but that doesn't mean I can't give it a go. If you wish it.

[it might even be fun-- he's therefore prepared to try. As for the rest, he issues another of those broken-glass smiles.]

It was the kind of childhood you might expect of something created only to cause destruction.

[only infinitely worse than that, something that haunts him even now. Still, he shrugs. Shakes his head.]


But you've yet to say very much about yourself.

[An invitation perhaps, or just testing the waters, discerning how willing this person is to speak of themselves.]