"You're right," Strange admits. Reaching over to his little notebook, he tears out a sheet of paper from the end, putting it in the book to serve as an inpromptu bookmark. "But I've found that there are two different types of reading: reading to challenge yourself and reading for fun. Which one do you wish to do?"
After all, if the kid wants to learn more and read more, then why not keep reading this slightly complex book. But if this kid wants to read just for the sake of reading, then they can find something a bit easier.
Reira's words about the soldier don't necessarily surprise Strange, but he is a bit disappointed. Not in her exactly, but in the fact that a small kid got swept up in war. Children occasionally did get swept up in wartime: when he was in the peninsula, the British army occasionally bunked at a small town. But getting swept up to the extent that this child was acting in that capacity? It's distressing that the war got to the point where that happened.
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After all, if the kid wants to learn more and read more, then why not keep reading this slightly complex book. But if this kid wants to read just for the sake of reading, then they can find something a bit easier.
Reira's words about the soldier don't necessarily surprise Strange, but he is a bit disappointed. Not in her exactly, but in the fact that a small kid got swept up in war. Children occasionally did get swept up in wartime: when he was in the peninsula, the British army occasionally bunked at a small town. But getting swept up to the extent that this child was acting in that capacity? It's distressing that the war got to the point where that happened.