It was never too early to teach kid about the important things in life, and Devon was more than eager to do that. Despite Madeline being a couple of days shy of a month old, he'd already taken to telling her about sports -- and it seemed to calm her down, something that Devon found pride in, even though he knew she probably just liked hearing the
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He wasn't sure if that meant she wasn't listening, mostly because he was sometimes unsure when she was looking right at him.
"Um, hi," he said. He wondered if he should make Olivia wave. People did that sort of thing, didn't they?
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The part where she'd told him so and then fallen asleep had been a bit of a tip-off.
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Grinning from ear to ear as she tosses a ball up into the air and catches it, she nods emphatically. "That's good. Get 'em indoctrinated while they're young."
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Sure, Carlisle had been her father in the truest sense of the word, but Alice hadn't known any different. There is nothing wrong with taking the unconventional truth and making it easier to swallow.
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Morrigan had to remind herself that this was not Alistair. She had risked running into either by venturing so close to civilization, but the jungle did get lonely sometimes. Not that she would ever admit to feeling alone. She had been raised in such an environment, after all, with only her mother for company.
How glad she was the old crone was dead.
"What is baseball?" Morrigan asked from behind the two, staring at the flattened ground with the odd heaping of dirt. It was a very strange clearing.
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He shifted Madeline a little to get a better grip on her, then gestured around at the field. "Baseball's a sport. It looks a little more interesting when there are actually people playing it."
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"Do people play often, on this island?" It would not surprise her. Many things seemed frivolous, here.
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"Greetings," he said, unconsciously keeping his voice low. Babies didn't like loud noises, did they? He didn't think so. He didn't usually like loud noises either, because things that wanted him dead usually followed. "I hope I'm not interrupting."
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He knew what a field was, at least. It was the little things that made him feel better about not knowing just about everything here.
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In a nutshell.
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