"I don't want to have an impact. I don't want to be remembered."

That might be the kindest possible way to say it, but it's still not something an adult necessarily wants to hear from a child. They can't keep their stupid mouth shut right now, it seems. Ms. Lucretia is nice and polite and even when she's losing control, she just sounds sort of morosely annoyed, like it's all okay if she can rope it back into something in the boundaries of her own control. Like she could.

Adults don't like hearing kids say that. The urge to run briefly seizes them, twitches their limbs, but there's nowhere to run to.