Hah! I didn't think of it as traditionally helpful, either.

I wasn't sure what was even the damn point might have been until now.

[ They give a little shrug after that, though. They seem to have figured there was after feeling so much capable of more - it was a notable enough difference that for them they made a connection. ]

I also thought his words were rubbish. Even if there was a point about us being not exactly on the same level as that fool of a man; but, I suppose that the truth sometimes is hard to accept.

Yet, now is quite the different story, hm?