Jamie's been looking at the door a little more curiously, these days.
It's odd, having no sense of how long he's going to be here. Not like he's in any hurry to leave - this is one of the easiest worlds he's ever been to for a kid alone to get along in - but without the constant reminder that sooner or later, he'll be on his way . . .
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Gold can also be very distracting when in the form of feathered wings and attached to a small, North African woman sitting on a table.
The blue-black snakes she has for hair might also be distracting, really.
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(And it's not until a little further on in canon that he meets a girl with a snake for an arm.)
He may be staring, a little. He's trying not to! After a moment, though, he can't resist the temptation to ask, "Ah - how do they get on with the rats?"
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"We don't."
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Jamie grins, at that, and, taking it as an invitation to approach, hops out of his seat and wanders over to his table.
"Me neither. Though I don't think they think I'm likely to eat them, mind. They just don't like me."
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He notices the other, younger kid sitting on the couch. "Hey."
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"Jamie. I've been about, but with the number of people here, I'm not surprised. I can't have even seen more than a tenth of them."
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