Yeah, [ he mutters, ] I know what you mean. [ it's the perfect way to describe Giorno — only it isn't. or it is and isn't, because Giorno seems to be many things at once: untouchable, unknowable, confident... and yet, Stiles remembers his quiet surprise when they first met, the uncertainty, the edge of not enough that was so familiar to him in Perdition's Rest.

pressing his mouth together into a line, Stiles nods a go-ahead for Fugo. ] It's fine. [ it has to be. then, to distract; ] How old are you guys, actually? I don't... I don't think I know. [ please. keep talking, give him something to focus on. ]