Badou could hear Artemis' voice in his head. 'It's no big deal. I was twelve back then.'

He remembered his steak and cut of more of it, reminding himself to eat between snatches of conversation. "It's because you've already taken over a large one, right? When I was thirteen my biggest accomplishment was learning how to knit - and if you laugh I swear I'll choke you with this fork."