[ Ben is going to keep holding Peter until he is ready to let go; and in the meantime he tries gently coaxing a little amusement into him. He hadn't been lying, of course, about having those questions ready. He couldn't have been. But what he hadn't said aloud is that half the point of asking them is to remind Peter of smaller, frivolous mistakes. Little errors and faults that he'd made that hadn't been connected with anyone he loved dying. To make Peter laugh at himself, but also, in a more subtle way, to remind him that the stakes weren't always so horribly high, that he is allowed to mess up and have it just be a funny story. ]
What is the absolute dumbest thing you ever said out loud, either in school or to a stranger, as a little kid?
[ That seems, to Ben, likely to be a relatively safe question to ask. All kids blurt embarrassing nonsense, but the consequences aren't, he thinks, he HOPES, usually all that traumatic. ]
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What is the absolute dumbest thing you ever said out loud, either in school or to a stranger, as a little kid?
[ That seems, to Ben, likely to be a relatively safe question to ask. All kids blurt embarrassing nonsense, but the consequences aren't, he thinks, he HOPES, usually all that traumatic. ]