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Newton's Cradle desk ornaments are supposed to be calming. Phong has placed his directly in the child's line of sight, in hopes that this really is effective. Certainly, nothing else has worked in that regard.
Nor has he been able to establish anything regarding young Enzo's state of mind that he didn't know already. The child has not exactly kept his desire to aid with the war effort, or his jealousy of his older self, secret. There was no helping either of those, though, under the circumstances.
In retrospect, they really should have given him more busywork.
Newton's Cradle desk ornaments are supposed to be calming. Phong has placed his directly in the child's line of sight, in hopes that this really is effective. Certainly, nothing else has worked in that regard.
Nor has he been able to establish anything regarding young Enzo's state of mind that he didn't know already. The child has not exactly kept his desire to aid with the war effort, or his jealousy of his older self, secret. There was no helping either of those, though, under the circumstances.
In retrospect, they really should have given him more busywork.
