Heiji laughed. "Yeah, fiction's not the best place to look for accurate information on childhood development. Although reading about Harlow's experiments with rhesus monkeys was kind of awful. You've heard of them, right? It involved taking young monkeys away from their mother and seeing what sort of substitutes they'd bond with instead."

He scooped up some sand and piled it up in front of himself, experimenting to see how easy it was to work with.