We were. [ a beat. ] We are.

[ they haven't seen each other in a long time, but time travel - always so tricky. ]

I mentored him back when he first got his powers, right around your age. He altered a whole day's worth of history because he didn't like how it went the first time. [ his smirk tempers to a low smile, leaning his side into the glass and tilting his head against the glass, lost in reminiscing. ] You two are a lot alike. Full of light. You just don't know it yet.