The connection to the twelve-year-old boy might be the key.

And they did- one of them was a twelve-year-old boy.

The first of the cases had been the twelve-year-old boy.

Two of them had no more chance than a twelve-year-old boy.

Do you have any idea what it's like for a twelve-year-old boy to watch his father waste away?

Not very badly, but enough to have the mind of maybe a twelve-year-old boy.

"You have been through quite a lot for a twelve-year-old boy!"

How was a twelve-year-old boy to know all these things?

But it was also the face of a twelve-year-old boy.

He was no longer a twelve-year-old boy in body, but a powerful man.