What is it about guns and weapons that fascinates boys of a certain age? Or maybe boys of all ages, I don’t know.

Adrian doesn’t have even a smidgen of violence in him. Even in his most angry periods he’s never hit or kicked or otherwise tried to hurt anyone. No sibling fights.

And still he loves guns, or rather the idea of guns. A vast majority of his Plus-Plus constructions are guns of various kinds. Handguns, sniper rifles, machine guns, hand cannons, grenade launchers… The terminology comes from computer games, mostly Fortnite. He doesn’t even really understand the differences between them all, apart from the looks, so he makes up unlikely hybrids such as “sniper pistol”.