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[athirdplace]

[ The vine tunes in slowly and you can hear a child's voice, a girl's, mid-sentenced: --like this? and then a small gasp of surprise as the video focus a little bit more. There is, in fact, a girl. She's small and thin, about ten-years-old with long hair and dressed in a simple skirt, a navy blouse and a girly shirt with floral pattern, her legs

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[thinkbrave]

( This girls sounds like she wandered in from a Lewis Carroll novel. Ellie will regard the vine extremely warily for a moment before even trying to respond.

It's mostly because her curiosity gets the better of her. It's probably going to involve some form of ridiculous terminology, but... she can't quite help herself. )

Island of Aunts?

( Welcome to the Garden, kiddo. )

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[athirdplace]

[ She looks modestly surprised with the image that appears on the video, opening her mouth a little. She then shuts it and nods. ]

Yes. Me and Fabio-- I mean, Fabio and I, [ Because her father is a Professor of Grammar and he always corrects her on that. ] stayed there with the Aunts and Art and the old Captain... But then we had to go back home.

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[thinkbrave]

( Ellie closes her mouth after the kid corrects herself, and tries to ignore the fact that she knows someone called Fabio. Fabio? Really? It sounded like a fake name Homer would give himself, if he ever had the reason to. )

That, uh. That sounds like a real... adventure.

( :| ) So what do cheese and tomato sandwiches have to do with it?

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[athirdplace]

[ She smiles a little bit. ] It was a very big adventure. [ She says it proudly and with a bit of nostalgia, like she is glad she went through it. ]

Oh, well, the sandwich was drugged and it made me fall asleep. [ Stated so... normally. ]

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[thinkbrave]

( "It was a very big adventure." For some reason, that annoys her. Just rubs her the wrong way. )

Well, if they gave you a sandwich and you fell for it again, that'd make you pretty stupid.

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[athirdplace]

[ POUTS... ]

I didn't know it would be drugged... She said she was an aunt...

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[thinkbrave]

So... you took food from a stranger?

( CLEARLY YOU ARE STUPID, SMALL CHILD )

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[athirdplace]

It's not like that! [ She fidgets a little. ] Aunts are supposed to take care of you and Aunt Etta bought me a sandwich from the trolley. It was the forty-eighth time I took the train and aunts always did that for me. She did it when I wasn't looking, you see...

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[thinkbrave]

Right. Well, if she did it in front of you, that would make her stupid.

( Rolling her eyes a bit. ) Little moron.

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[athirdplace]

[ She looks so very uncomfortable right now, wringing the hem of her blouse. SHE'S TEN, ELLIE. HOW WOULD SHE KNOW THE AUNT WOULD DRUG HER... ]

She did not mean any harm by it...

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[thinkbrave]

( AGES MEANS NOTHING. IT'S JUST A NUMBER. GOD, HAS WAR TAUGHT YOU NOTHI-- oh. Well, whatever, it's still dumb. )

She didn't mean any harm by drugging you? Are you serious?

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[athirdplace]

[ Just getting nervous by the minute. ]

They just needed help with the Island... I didn't mind... They were very nice too. The Aunts are a bit, hm, unusual.

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[thinkbrave]

So. A bunch of random ladies drug you, drag you off to some weird island, and ask you to help them out? And you're okay with that?

Yeah, unusual is a good word for it. It's bloody kidnapping.

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[athirdplace]

Yes, because there are some things that just need to be done. And it wasn't kidnapping! [ She says this very seriously, her little face all determined with a big frown. ] I was chosen.

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[thinkbrave]

( She can get that first part, at least. But, still. ) I'm pretty sure that falls under the definition of kidnapping.

( Such severe lineface, you don't even know. ) Chosen to be kidnapped, yeah.

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[athirdplace]

[ She shakes her head. ]

Kidnapping means "to be taken against one's will". [ She knows this because the Aunts' lawyer read that from a dictionary. ] I was not taken against my will because I chose to stay there.