[Maybe Dima does have a playmate rather than a proper father in Pavel, but that doesn't mean he can't grow up happily. Nothing--not Hei's apparent bewilderment with the situation, nothing--will prevent the Russian from providing the best care for the child that he can. He's been reading about children. He can handle this.]
If you say so. [That's an easy enough concession to make. He's not going to protest anything Hei does to involve himself in Dimitri's life.
Pavel plucks a folded blanket from the back of the couch, shakes it out, and drapes it over the snoozing Avatar. He hesitates long enough to wonder whether or not he should be concerned about the fact that he is emulating his grandmother before asking:] Should we wake her, or let her sleep?
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If you say so. [That's an easy enough concession to make. He's not going to protest anything Hei does to involve himself in Dimitri's life.
Pavel plucks a folded blanket from the back of the couch, shakes it out, and drapes it over the snoozing Avatar. He hesitates long enough to wonder whether or not he should be concerned about the fact that he is emulating his grandmother before asking:] Should we wake her, or let her sleep?