Desperate Fans

"Wood and metal?" he repeats, with the delight of learning something new, letting himself be especially smiling and open about it in the presence of a child. "What are the properties of wood and metal, second young master?" He'd asked where air went, but a child so like Galahad reciting facts from his most recent reading likely appreciates one question at a time. The resemblance between the two only makes Claudius feel fonder.