[No, Ivan most certainly doesn't even nurse the idea of being anyone's mom, that's plain ridiculous! But he does know enough to stop a fight he'd have to translate from happening.]
He is old, I hardly think it would mattering.
[And here Ivan notices how carefully Firo treats this. It's almost like a kid watching their Dad fix up a broken car engine and isn't that a funny thought. So here he'll ask for a screwdriver, hardly knowing the words to differentiate between them in English and resorting to wild gestures with his hands and a slipping Russian-English mixture.]
Didn't think so, you're not one of us. [It's calmly stated and true, because there's definitely nothing that would show Firo having to live among the Russians and the Slavic people here.]
no subject
He is old, I hardly think it would mattering.
[And here Ivan notices how carefully Firo treats this. It's almost like a kid watching their Dad fix up a broken car engine and isn't that a funny thought. So here he'll ask for a screwdriver, hardly knowing the words to differentiate between them in English and resorting to wild gestures with his hands and a slipping Russian-English mixture.]
Didn't think so, you're not one of us. [It's calmly stated and true, because there's definitely nothing that would show Firo having to live among the Russians and the Slavic people here.]