"Hardly," then again, Alphonse is gauging a lot of it on what he's gone through more than his physical age.
"It's not like I expected them to help me for free, either." He was going to pay them, but none of them had let him get that far in his proposal first. Then again, he shouldn't have started it with payment in the form of repairs and what not without explaining he was an alchemist.
His eyes do drift down to the tentacle movements, simply because it's not something he's used to seeing. But then they go back up to the other's eyes.
Alphonse is trying not to feel disheartened, but it's hard when all he can imagine the other doing is just taking him to shore. He doubts he could pay the other to be a teacher, there's no way he could afford what a whole town could pay. "Could I offer you some tea then before we head to shore then?"
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"It's not like I expected them to help me for free, either." He was going to pay them, but none of them had let him get that far in his proposal first. Then again, he shouldn't have started it with payment in the form of repairs and what not without explaining he was an alchemist.
His eyes do drift down to the tentacle movements, simply because it's not something he's used to seeing. But then they go back up to the other's eyes.
Alphonse is trying not to feel disheartened, but it's hard when all he can imagine the other doing is just taking him to shore. He doubts he could pay the other to be a teacher, there's no way he could afford what a whole town could pay. "Could I offer you some tea then before we head to shore then?"