[There's that feeling again, like a gong being rung in his chest, echoes of a voice he only partly remembers. Hinata -- both Hinatas -- is still so used to the idea that talent and ability are what make the man, that Iris can only say he can take on Scorpius if she knows what skills he's capable of... but Nanami had said something like that, hadn't she? She'd said something that had convinced him once that he could be more than a collection of talents. That he could be a person.
[Private]
He smiles again.]
Is that what it takes? I didn't know.