[... shoot, her new design looks pretty cool, but!! This just means he needs to buckle down extra hard to make his even better!
Her question throws him for a loop, though, enough so that it makes him pause at the tail-end of his sketching. Was she trying to psyche him out?]
... I doubt it.
[And at that, he continues his work, finally starting to dig in the holes of his design with a small army knife he had kept stashed in his pocket (he likes being prepared??), but the question still stuck in his mind. Why would he want to be friends with someone who beat him all the time?]
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Her question throws him for a loop, though, enough so that it makes him pause at the tail-end of his sketching. Was she trying to psyche him out?]
... I doubt it.
[And at that, he continues his work, finally starting to dig in the holes of his design with a small army knife he had kept stashed in his pocket (he likes being prepared??), but the question still stuck in his mind. Why would he want to be friends with someone who beat him all the time?]