"Just buy yourself shoes today." That was his best advice to give, since everything else would take more time. It would also need a bit of introspection on his part, because it wasn't as if he'd been looking for this kind of emotional investment. He supposed sometimes things just happened.

"If you are at the club early enough, I will take you out for dinner. Good dinner." Whatever a kid like that would consider good. "Lots of beef." Probably that.