Really, it's okay. I know a lot of people like that - you'd think I'd have learned by now. [He grins a little, lopsided and open, as he says it. Like it's his fault for disturbing the kid.]

[There would be self-consciousness here, if someone else had reacted like that. But it's so much different coming from someone in the same boat. Shiro just wiggles his fingers, instead of shoving his hands in his pockets.]

It is. I admit, I kind of like the look of yours better.