"Seems t'me," Reno said in his slow drawl, "you could do with a less worrying 'bout what other people thought of you and more worrying about what you think 'bout yourself, Elena. It'd probably help a lot." A significant pause, a shift in his seat, and he adds, "I had a big family, too, y'know. Got compared all the time to my older brother. He was smart, amazing, did all sorta things, and got away with a lot. Me, I'm lucky I didn't fail out of school, nobody paid much attention or cared. You got a lot more goin' for ya than you know."