...Which isn't to say it's impossible.

It's just the chances are highly unlikely, and I've never managed to cause it to successfully happen.

[...This empathy thing is hard. He could tell something was wrong, but he didn't know what; it came from years of reading emotions to run cons. But he really hadn't used it to try and really talk with people.

But he was supposed to be becoming a better person. Or at least visibly, so he could get his yo-yo back from that weird kid. Not like he had to change permanently.]