[Micah takes the correction with little more than a one-shouldered shrug. It's a small thing, not really worth arguing about.]
I haven't been a teen, much less a runaway, for years now. [He's factual about it, a little amused by the question; he chuckles, quietly.] Nah, the House got me all straightened out, turned me into a proper upstanding citizen. I've had a job and a place of my own for a while now. I'm on the up and up.
[And there's a hint of pride in what he says, because he beat the odds that were stacked against him, and he knows it. It's an accomplishment worth being proud of.]
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I haven't been a teen, much less a runaway, for years now. [He's factual about it, a little amused by the question; he chuckles, quietly.] Nah, the House got me all straightened out, turned me into a proper upstanding citizen. I've had a job and a place of my own for a while now. I'm on the up and up.
[And there's a hint of pride in what he says, because he beat the odds that were stacked against him, and he knows it. It's an accomplishment worth being proud of.]