The Causeway, Sunday Morning/Afternoon

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It was that time of the year again: spring break, with its travels to far away and exotic locales! Like Brazil

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[dollpocalypse]

Topher drew his wings tight around him and looked sullen. That was sort of a thing with him today, the sullenness.

Look, his shirt was uncomfortable and yesterday had been absolutely awful except for the Tony part and he just hated everything. Ugh.

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"'s what Tony said," Topher mumbled. "I just don't get -- never mind."

[endsthegame]

"What don't you get?" Ender asked gently.

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"She came and, like, found me and Tony and talked about how she messed up and she's sorry or something," Topher said, shrugging. "Like two weeks ago. So... so much for that."

[endsthegame]

Ender sighed. "Topher," he said, "Karla... isn't really comfortable with naked people in her room that she doesn't know. She probably lost it as badly as you did."

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Topher flailed, and protested, "I did not hit her with things!"

[endsthegame]

"No, I know," Ender said, holding up a calming hand. "When you're scared, you run."

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"Well, she didn't," he muttered. "So obviously she wasn't." Scared. You know.

[endsthegame]

"Oh, come on, you're clever," Ender said. "You know what fight-or-flight is."

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He did, it was true.

"Well," Topher muttered, "she picked the stupid one. Like, what was I even gonna do?"

[endsthegame]

"And you also know what instinct is," Ender continued. "It would surprise me if you hadn't done research into that, actually."

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Topher scuffed his foot against the ground. "So?" he mumbled. "She still hit me and stuff."

[endsthegame]

"I'll talk to her about that," Ender promised. After he got her end of the story, anyway. "I'm just trying to say, she was likely as scared as you were - that's why what she did seemed so strange after her apology."

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"Well, if she was scared, she didn't need to chase me first," Topher grumbled. "She didn't even get it, and I was hiding and isn't she supposed to read minds anyway?"

[endsthegame]

"She doesn't read minds, she can just... smell some things about people," Ender said. "You being in Warren's body probably threw her off."

Small words... and he really hoped Karla warranted them.

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"She told me she could read minds," Topher said, with certainty. "When she threatened me."