He really, really, more than he could easily express, appreciated Clint not being afraid of falling. For one thing, dealing with that in adults is why it was so hard for most of them to pick it up - not that he usually taught adults who weren't already well onto their way to some high level competition - but it also made them more likely to fall. They just then fell at lower speeds.

"I don't know about pity," he said, with a faint frown, "but ones with good parents tend to be pretty good at empathy. At least in fits and starts between a more natural state of new total psychopathic levels of self-centered. Depends on how young they are."