"When I was a child, I was bullied and hid behind a little girl two years younger than I am, not to mention smaller, for protection. I think your speech just reminds me of me." He shook his head, expression wry. "I taught myself because no one wanted me to be anything. You already have stepped out of a shadow like that to one further without needing to go and hunt down someone yourself, it looks to me. That's lucky, and you don't seem the type to waste it."