"That's all you've got?" James answers, and he's not even thinking about any of that: instead, the anger and indignation from a little earlier is gone, and he's instead stepping even closer and dropping his own arms. Just a little nudge into the pond, he thinks, because he used to wrestle Al into it all the time until he started running to Dad about it, and James was left bored and restless and full of energy he had nothing to do with. "I'm ridiculous, am I. Tell me something I don't know."