"If you continue to be a fool, then you'll continue to accumulate debt," he says, and then, after a pause, "if I kept track of such things."
He stopped counting some time ago. He's found it easier not to.
(He is surprised, deep inside himself, at the pain he feels when Avery smiles at him. It's not any good; simply more bitterness. How utterly betrayed by anything else the hero must be, to take comfort from this - what little allowance he can make.)
"You'll be pleased to know that I do not, however, so you owe me nothing. I'm not doing this because I expect a reward."
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He stopped counting some time ago. He's found it easier not to.
(He is surprised, deep inside himself, at the pain he feels when Avery smiles at him. It's not any good; simply more bitterness. How utterly betrayed by anything else the hero must be, to take comfort from this - what little allowance he can make.)
"You'll be pleased to know that I do not, however, so you owe me nothing. I'm not doing this because I expect a reward."