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[greatlightother]

[Have a slightly nervous eightish year old Sveta. Her blonde hair is in two tightly braided pigtails and there's a red scarf around her neck. She's smiling, but...only because she doesn't want to get in trouble. When she speaks, it's with a very thick Russian accent

Comments

[naughtbutlife]

Monster! No, it's a devil. Don't worry. Just ignore them and they go away.

[greatlightother]

Devil?! There aren't devils here!

[naughtbutlife]

If you cannot see them then they're probably in the kitchen banging pots or other mean things.

[greatlightother]

That's not nice of them.

Why do they do it?

[naughtbutlife]

Because the just do. They're devils.

[greatlightother]

I've never heard of that...

[naughtbutlife]

Well, that's because you're foreign.

[greatlightother]

No, you are.

[naughtbutlife]

I guess I am when you think about it. But so are you! Where are you from anyway? I like your accent.

[greatlightother]

I live in Moscow!

Where do you live?

[naughtbutlife]

Moscow. That's very far away.

I live in Oxfordshire! That's in England.

[greatlightother]

Oh. I don't think I'm supposed to talk to you.

[naughtbutlife]

Because I'm English?

I'm not supposed to talk to Papists, but Mal is very nice and beautiful.

[greatlightother]

Yes.

[...okay, she's curious.]

Who is Mal?

[naughtbutlife]

She's the French woman who came to help me and the country boy!

[greatlightother]

And she's nice? There aren't a lot of adults here...