"Controlling everyone and everything would be boring after a while." Lilura tilts her head as she tries to solve the puzzle. "You're trying to tell me you're not great company? Why would that be?"

"Because I still need lessons, remember? I don't know how to...act," he said, choosing that word carefully, "around other people."

"Pro tip: ACT, don't REact. I'm still trying to learn that one myself. Easier said than done." Lilura says.

"That's about clear as mud, you know."

"Act not react. I don't really know how to explain. It's... Well..." Lilura searches for the right words. "Reacting, I think, is more of an instinctive thing. But when we act, we choose what we do."

"But Newton's third law says 'for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction'. And I've learned to trust my instincts, and that's not something you can just ignore."

"I don't know how to explain it then... It's just a suggestion." Lilura says, hugging herself as she looks out the window, knowing she had failed to help.

"Stop doing that," he said, attempting to unwrap her arms from around herself. "First step of self-confidence: Don't hug yourself. It makes you feel worse about yourself."

Lilura flops her arms down at her side, "Looks like the teacher has become the student."

"Don't get used to it. You still have a bunch to teach me. Like how to act instead of reacting."