“Friend who likes to cook as a hobby when he has time takes longer to say.” Tim feels like he’s navigating without a map. He hasn’t meant for Bart to take offence at the shorthand, but there’s a year of this Bart that he’s missing. That’s comparatively a lot more of Bart’s life than the numbers would indicate.

As a sort of penance for the misstep, Tim not only obligingly moves closer but holds a hand out for the chick. He’s not sure if he wants to hold it or pet it, but whichever he’s allowed is fine. “What about Bawkara?”

He doesn’t have quite the same reverence for Babs, although she’s definitely all of the things Bart mentioned.