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[we'll all love you just the way you are if you're perfect] [open]

Jul 17, 2008 17:15

Melou, wearing his usual look of utter woe, is picking huckleberries on the edge of the woods. He remembered a basket this time, and is working steadily, his fingers a little sticky from accidentally squashed berries ( Read more... )

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hniit July 18 2008, 00:38:27 UTC

"Hi." It's a girl, a girl about Miranda's age in jeans and a sleeveless shirt, sitting crosslegged by the bushes with a book and a bottle of water. She offers a slightly wry smile.

hniit July 19 2008, 03:56:23 UTC

"No, it's okay." Nita rakes a hand through her hair. "I'm just oversensitive."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:02:40 UTC

"I might have spoken better."

hniit July 19 2008, 04:14:19 UTC

"It's really okay," mildly.

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:25:58 UTC

Okay! It's okay! Deep breath.

"Then--can you only ask things to grow stronger, but not to grow in a way other than they are?"

hniit July 19 2008, 04:28:08 UTC

"You can ask. But it usually doesn't work, and it's not a good idea unless you've thought it all the way through."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:34:51 UTC

"Because there is consequence, and it may lead to some other thing," carefully, thinking aloud to sound things out, the way he did with Mordred.

hniit July 19 2008, 04:36:05 UTC

"Yeah. Yeah, exactly," pleased that he catches on so quickly. "It gets complicated real fast."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:39:34 UTC

"So it is better to have them do as they would in the way of things. What they could do without changing themselves?" looking to her for approval.

hniit July 19 2008, 04:41:06 UTC

"Right. Like talking to anybody else, basically."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:43:20 UTC

Dude! He never thought of that. The light dawns nicely.

"I understand!" he says, smiling because he is pretty sure he does.

hniit July 19 2008, 04:50:19 UTC

"Yeah." Nita never had any doubt that he would! "So that's what I've been doing. It's no skin off their roots, really, except that they'll probably be slower next year. I told them I'd make sure the seeds got planted, though."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:53:46 UTC

Melou glances at the huckleberries again. "Is there aught I should do when I gather them?"

See, because now he has to worry about offending the berries, as well.

hniit July 19 2008, 04:54:37 UTC

There is a very slight pause. "They haven't been complaining."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:57:00 UTC

A tiny sigh of relief. "If I offend them--"

hniit July 19 2008, 04:59:24 UTC

She grins a bit. "I don't think you will. But I'll intervene."

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