It's true, they are each formidable. That's why he aspires to winning one of these rounds as something of a showdown, a final boss challenge, more than anything easier.
For now, he crosses the way to look over Walter's artwork and nod approving. When Benjiro offers a gift, Russell ruefully smiles and accepts it - but doesn't begin opening it. He's already taken a stand complaining about how early gifts are getting to be, and doesn't want to add to the trend... at least, until he's the last to open one.
"Seeing that, you agree we have to wait until Christmas morning, don't you?" He says, still smiling, and heads down the hall toward his room, calling out behind him with his own gift tucked under his arm. "That's outstanding work, and I just can't compete. Let me just blend in with the family this year."
His gift to Benjiro will end up being a small wrapped box, holding a picture frame, a card, and a gift certificate in the card. The gift certificate's for a local bike shop - one with motorcycle-related gear as much as anything. The card's a generic holiday wishes, and the picture frame... It's a framed photograph of various Moss Manor relatives - Agatha and Rosemary, Russell, Benjiro, a few other cousins and such - at a dinner following some opening night show, shortly after Benjiro moved in with the aunts. A reminder of family, and times together, for when things get... a little more fraught, and it's a little harder to see those people in mirrors.
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For now, he crosses the way to look over Walter's artwork and nod approving. When Benjiro offers a gift, Russell ruefully smiles and accepts it - but doesn't begin opening it. He's already taken a stand complaining about how early gifts are getting to be, and doesn't want to add to the trend... at least, until he's the last to open one.
"Seeing that, you agree we have to wait until Christmas morning, don't you?" He says, still smiling, and heads down the hall toward his room, calling out behind him with his own gift tucked under his arm. "That's outstanding work, and I just can't compete. Let me just blend in with the family this year."
His gift to Benjiro will end up being a small wrapped box, holding a picture frame, a card, and a gift certificate in the card. The gift certificate's for a local bike shop - one with motorcycle-related gear as much as anything. The card's a generic holiday wishes, and the picture frame... It's a framed photograph of various Moss Manor relatives - Agatha and Rosemary, Russell, Benjiro, a few other cousins and such - at a dinner following some opening night show, shortly after Benjiro moved in with the aunts. A reminder of family, and times together, for when things get... a little more fraught, and it's a little harder to see those people in mirrors.