"Ah, I know about spells and runes--" He had a briefing on them, actually. "--but no talent for the stuff. It's important work. If you want, you can come by the evening classes. One of them is graduate level, so if you want to come to that, I can send you the reading list the week before."

He leans in a little closer, to watch the drill. He looks... impressed, really. Yang never had the sort of know-how or manual dexterity to do things like this. "Well... I think it's a good reason to take care of things, just in case it is true."

And, of course, he takes the statue when offered, staring down at it. Yang's expressions are often some variation on "pleasant, tired smile," but it's a little wider than usual today. He looks honestly touched. He doesn't really have that many things that his father had. He looks down, then back at Héctor.

"Thank you for this," he says. "I'll be sure to be more careful with it. Especially while the glue's drying."