[ He'll come back to the "normal person" job part, but he's too caught up in the other stuff he's said. ]

Shit — not from the moment you were born? Unless you came out like this. What about the stuff before it?

[ Beyond just the basics of learning to walk and talk and stumble around that comes with being an infant and then a kid and a teenager, Amos truthfully can't come up with any good examples of what "the stuff before it" should have, could have, or might have been, because his own was the furthest from a childhood of any kind.

But this also makes some kind of sense. And he's expecting that whatever explanation he's given, he won't be at all surprised. Not with how damn young he sounds and seems. ]

Look, I don't know you. Take it as you want, but — you've got a whole damn life of something else.

[ Some of how he talks sounds like Holden, that same creed the man lives by, the way he's saved them all plenty of times. Almost killed them a few times, too, but point is, he can't seem to stop himself from protecting and saving others. It's noble and righteous, but goddamn there's still a little more life this kid could be living. ]

What kind of family business is this anyway?