I mean the hero, of course! Why would I look to a dog as the person I want to be like when I grow up? That is just silly!
Did your father name you after him then? Is that why you said that? That would be really neat! To be named after a hero like that!
[If Diarmuid was a little older and better able to remember names, he would realize from all the names the other boy had just mentioned that he was talking to his hero, but as it is, he doesn't remember details quite that well yet.]
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[Diarmuid gives the other boy a curious look.]
I mean the hero, of course! Why would I look to a dog as the person I want to be like when I grow up? That is just silly!
Did your father name you after him then? Is that why you said that? That would be really neat! To be named after a hero like that!
[If Diarmuid was a little older and better able to remember names, he would realize from all the names the other boy had just mentioned that he was talking to his hero, but as it is, he doesn't remember details quite that well yet.]