[Maybe not quite how Lupin would have expected this topic to be broached... but... the other man had to have noticed by now that Law and Shikamaru had history and the pirate was protective of the younger man.
Not boy.
Shikamaru was no child. Not an adult by many other's reckon (by Law's yes - many a pirate was younger), but boy was simply the wrong thing to call him. He was a man in so many things and wise beyond his years, and in so many others painfully young and coming into himself and that manhood.]
July 1st // Action
Noted. [Smile] Though I'll take that risk.
[And then a shifting of mood.]
You speak to Shikamaru yet?
[Maybe not quite how Lupin would have expected this topic to be broached... but... the other man had to have noticed by now that Law and Shikamaru had history and the pirate was protective of the younger man.
Not boy.
Shikamaru was no child. Not an adult by many other's reckon (by Law's yes - many a pirate was younger), but boy was simply the wrong thing to call him. He was a man in so many things and wise beyond his years, and in so many others painfully young and coming into himself and that manhood.]