what you make of it
Matchback for this.
"You're putting an awful lot of work into that," Mikhail comments, rather than place the emphasis on just how much time Milton has spent bent over a fiddly little piece of embroidery buried in his lap. That is the point, but it might be a little rude to say so.
"Haze says it used to take her a really long time too," is Milton's nonchalant, yet earnest reply. "Now that I've stopped sticking myself so much, it's not too bad."
"But...what if you lose it?" Earthly possessions really aren't Mikhail's style; they can't be.
"We can always make another!"