"I'm just havin' a go at him," he promises with a nudge. Immediately after which he checks to see that the jutting of his elbow wasn't so much as to knock Carter off balance. "He's a good kid. Better than he'd like to be really. Yer not... wrong about his ego either. But," he shrugs. "Some people pick up a shield. Some people become one."

Carter's admission of the aforementioned young man's helpfulness lights up Logan's eyes a little. "S'at so? Heh. Likes to say he hates teaching."

For a grumpy old man he looks a little satisfied when he makes one of these kids laugh sincerely. "As long as it ain't on ice, I'm sure you'd be all kinds of graceful."