[Will actually starts to reply. If they're discussing word etymology like it's a legitimate thing, his first thought is sinister and left, and how something being on the left or someone who writes with the left hand isn't logically going to be bad news. Superstition. Bullshit. How in that vein, fear and respect ain't the same at all.
Sasha isn't afraid of Will. Nor is April. He isn't afraid of them, but damn right he respects them. The two don't go hand in hand regardless of word origins, same as sinister and left. But then he stares at his half-written reply for a few moments and comes to a better conclusion. Crane barks and barks (howls, really) about not caring and how all he wants is to be alone. He refuses to accept boundaries, which is nothing new to Will. Crane, however, is not Hannibal. Will has no duty, no obligation to indulge him. So he sends nothing. He ignores him. Indulges his desire to be left alone.
He doesn't give a shit if Crane takes this to mean he's won, that his divinity has triumphed. In the same way Will would ignore a poorly-behaved dog barking for attention in order to condition him to accept that behavior won't be rewarded and he should keep at it, Will ignores Crane. A good teacher does not have to highlight everything in a verbal manner to get a point or lesson across, after all.]
He owes him a pop in the mouth.
Sasha isn't afraid of Will. Nor is April. He isn't afraid of them, but damn right he respects them. The two don't go hand in hand regardless of word origins, same as sinister and left. But then he stares at his half-written reply for a few moments and comes to a better conclusion. Crane barks and barks (howls, really) about not caring and how all he wants is to be alone. He refuses to accept boundaries, which is nothing new to Will. Crane, however, is not Hannibal. Will has no duty, no obligation to indulge him. So he sends nothing. He ignores him. Indulges his desire to be left alone.
He doesn't give a shit if Crane takes this to mean he's won, that his divinity has triumphed. In the same way Will would ignore a poorly-behaved dog barking for attention in order to condition him to accept that behavior won't be rewarded and he should keep at it, Will ignores Crane. A good teacher does not have to highlight everything in a verbal manner to get a point or lesson across, after all.]