"That's big talk for someone so small," he says as they exit the apartment and start to head for the boardwalk. "Is that trash talk? Is that what the kids call it?"

Slang has always been a bit weird to Hopper, but jumping from the eighties to now has changed the way teenagers talk and a lot of the time he feels like he has no idea what they're saying. Beverly is from the same time period he is, at least close enough, but she's also a teenager. Catching on to new slang is what they do, he figures.

He had never really felt old or out of touch until Sara died. It's a little bit better in Darrow and he knows the reason why is walking beside him right now.