[ And immediately he braces himself for the inevitable protest. You'd think he'd get less of it, now that he isn't nine anymore, but it seems like people still have a problem with it. Which, admittedly, if he'd seen someone else his age getting into the kind of trouble he tossed himself into daily, he'd have put a stop to it, but still. There's definitely a defensive note to his voice as he continues: ]
Re: visual
[ And immediately he braces himself for the inevitable protest. You'd think he'd get less of it, now that he isn't nine anymore, but it seems like people still have a problem with it. Which, admittedly, if he'd seen someone else his age getting into the kind of trouble he tossed himself into daily, he'd have put a stop to it, but still. There's definitely a defensive note to his voice as he continues: ]
And I'm good at what I do.