Everything's Almost Fine (Reignfinite)

"You... y-you can't be serious. I-I mean, we just met two hours ago and now you're giving me this?"

Adam couldn't help but lock eyes with Tyler until the other broke their gazes. "Even though I look like I'm about to burst into another crazy round of 'haha's, I'm actually pretty serious about it," he said, holding back his snickers. He smiled to himself as the other looked back at his new knife. He had no idea what Tyler might use it for, but he looked like he was really interested in it.

"Nah, really, man. That's a gift. Go crazy with it-- I mean not literally, of course," Adam said, waving his hands dismissively. "It's yours. You don't have to pay for it or anything. And I sure as hell won't be telling you the price. 'Sides, I used my extra cash. I still got a lot saved up.... since I'm kind of a millionaire, you know?"

The scarred man shrugged as he said that last big. Then he turned to give the old man at the counter a nod before he led the way out. "C'mon, we're still going to have to find you a nullifier. It's best to go about while most of the students are in class and while it's still too early for people to becoming out for lunch," he said as they exited Blades and Potions.

By the way Tyler reacted, Adam could tell not a lot of people probably gave him gifts. Poor guy, he thought. Come to think of it, Tyler probably intentionally isolates himself from potential friends in fear of making them insane. But Adam has a harmless kind of insanity, which he decided he'd use to his advantage. Tyler obviously needs a friend, and it's a good thing Adam offered to be his roommate. "Listen, I know we just got in town and everything, but I realized we should have probably went to the school first and asked teachers if they had remedies for people with your kind of power," he said as he walked beside Tyler, his eyes set in front of him.

"Okay, so maybe my own savings haven't exactly reached millionaire level yet, but my family owns acres of land and a couple factories where we manufacture metal for a thousand of purposes aaaaand I've got all that to be passed on to me for when my dad gets tired of playing monopoly," Adam admitted. He didn't add in the fact that one of the factories was already in his care because that was only so before the accident. After his injuries healed, he gave it back to his father and said he'd needed a few years away from all of it or else he'd go crazy.

Never mind the fact that even though he was in an island in the Pacific and far away from all that, he was still going nuts here. Well, Adam thought, at least it's not being driven nuts because that's different.

And it's not like he was bragging about the cash, he just thought Tyler should know because it seemed they were going to be good friends... even though Tyler might not believe his story. There would be occasions when he'll just have to.

Adam heard about Tyler suddenly talking about his next favorite Green Lantern after Hal Jordan and grinned. He turned to him. "Aw yeah! Kilowog's the beast!" he said as he looked back to the road. He was still going to have to get used to talking to Tyler without looking at him so much, but if he did, Adam wouldn't feel like he's giving the other attention. He knew Tyler knew he can't look at him very long though so that should make him feel a little less bad about it.

"But, hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was one though? Oh, and did you know that during his time in earth, he lived in the Soviet Union?" Adam's voice then lowered to pouty muttering, "Except he figured out humanity was flawed when it came to Communism so he left eventually."

He grinned again afterwards and went back to informing Tyler of other things about the fictional alien and his friends as he led the way back to school. He realized a moment later than he had changed the topic totally. "Oh, sorry about that. I got distracted. Anyway, there is one guy who reminded me of Kilowog when I met him. His name is Mr. Trinidad. I'm supposed to train under him for better control of my powers when we get our schedules fixed."

"Hm, well, I think when it comes to your powers, Mr. Trinidad won't be able to offer any help. He's more of a physical powers guy," Adam explained. "And he's a physical ed teacher, which is a real match for his powers. You see, this dude's got the ability to manipulate his body. And I know that may seem kinda, 'eh, nothing special', but wait till you see him do things. For example, say, he's not the kind of man you'd expect could lick his elbow? Well, he could by, I don't know, moving around his bones and muscles and stuff. I'm not sure how it all works but he makes it work."

The raven realized he was trailing off topic again. He glanced at Tyler and patted the other's shoulder, since it seemed he was thinking too deeply about something again. Adam hoped it wasn't about Mr. Trinidad.

"Hey, if there's any place at school that could help you with your mind powers, I know the perfect one," he said confidently as he presented a grin. "Where else but the guidance office? It's the perfect place. I mean, I don't know about psychos--I mean, psychologists, of course--but I had this friend who took psycho for his major, and he said that the longer you study people's minds, the quicker you lose your own mind."

Of course, then, Adam's friend had only been exaggerating, but Adam didn't know that so he figured it might be true. He was still quite a gullible guy after all, despite his size and his scarred figure.

Adam's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh, god. I am so sorry," he said, looking at the other for a few seconds before his eyes went to the ground. "I didn't know you were enrolled for psychology. Though... even if I did I probably would've shared that anyway," he said with a sheepish laugh.

"So if you're going to be studying under Mr. Trinidad, then I assume you have a physical power too?"

"Yep. I have super strength and super speed," Adam said proudly. "Well, technically speaking, it's enhanced strength and speed, but that doesn't make it sound as cool as when you're saying super strength and super speed, right?"

They were still a long way from the school. It might take them some thirty or more minutes on foot at this speed. And Adam was okay with that as long as Tyler was. "So why psychology?" he asked in earnest curiosity. "I mean, I guess I could see the connection between your course and your superpower, but there's gotta be some deeper reason, right?"

"Oh, I see... I guess," Adam admitted with a true laugh. "I mean, I can imagine it, but I guess it's hard to understand, in my point of view." He figured it must be just like, for example, if he studied physics because he'd like to understand the thing with his speed and strength... even though he would probably end up breaking the laws of physics in the end.

Adam smiled to himself. That was, so far, Tyler's longest talk. Or one of them, if Adam was mistaken, which he sure he was. Or not. He couldn't tell if it took longer when Tyler was telling him why Flash was better than Green Lantern. He grinned at the other before he playfully shoved him in the shoulder as they walked. "Ya know, I should ask you more about things that make you talk about your opinion. You talk more that way. Or is it my incredibly cool yet warm personality that's finally warming you up?" he joked. "Because I'm that good."

Now he was laughing less. Not because he was growing some sort of invincibility to Tyler's powers, but because he was learning that the key to it is to look at the general direction of Tyler, but not at him. It might not be as good as earnestly looking into his eyes when they're talking, but it's the closest Adam could get so his insanity didn't always keep destroying the mood. Sometimes, he'd look at a random bush behind Tyler, sometimes at the pastries displayed on the front of a bakery they were passing by, also behind Tyler.

Speaking of food. "Hey, I'm feeling a little hungry. What do you say we get some food to eat on the way?" He offered. "While we're still in town. Because once we hit to road to school, it's a long way made up of nothing else but pavement and the generic trees-and-grass-and-bushes-on-the-side scenery."