Cliff pulled his legs in, sitting cross-legged then, and shook his head. He had a tendency to loosen up when he was one-on-one with someone, and that was something Esther probably knew already. "I'd hardly call myself a hero. I don't even know how half of this stuff works, it's just me taking my best guess and it usually ends up fixed." Some of the things he'd patched up were probably done so in a ridiculously complicated or confounding way... Anyone actually skilled in that sort of thing might laugh at his efforts. But again, he was the only one around with any knowledge!

"You do plenty worthwhile, though. Help keep this town running, you can bet our mayor's way too young to do it all by himself."