"Last time I made grilled cheese I discovered it gets stuck to the roof of my mouth.... Still liked it, though." He settles back to drink some of the soup right from the bowl, not caring that it's incredibly hot or that he has a spoon at the moment.

"Not bad," he decides after a moment to think about it, even if he hasn't gotten into the thick of it yet.

"I got this book but my brain just... it don't wanna do it today. It's had enough."