"you're too young for this shit, and I'm too old."

Dottore told you slowly and trying to speak intelligibly. His face was disfigured by his own experiments. You were a child from the Hearth House and constantly ran to the laboratory to Dottore, because you liked to listen to his stories.

Dottore was just telling you about the academy at Dusk, where you wanted to enroll. He was conducting some kind of experiment that you weren't particularly interested in. You liked to look at the different mechanisms in his laboratory, and the way he talked about each of them. He spoke without much enthusiasm, as clearly he did not want to give himself the extra trouble to keep an eye on some child. He didn't even remember your name.