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Lizzy happily danced about the middle of the room. After Mother had found out about this place, she had wasted no time in getting Miss Riku to rip open a gate to wherever here was and depositing Lizzy here, in this room with soft toys and other kids all around. It was nicer than being all alone at home, she reasoned, and so many toys! She'd at least touched all of them and had loved the xylophone. But now she was bored with that and she had decided to spin about. After almost knocking over a little dark-haired kid, one of the adults had relocated her to the middle, which was fairly clear of children.

Another grown-up opened the door and came inside. Automatically, she stopped spinning and lifted one hand in a joyous greeting. "Hi!" Her smile was huge and showed all her teeth. "I like you," she said to him, just like she had said to everyone else. "Let's be friends, okay?"

She giggled and clasped her hands. "I'm Elizabeth. Mother calls me Lizzy, though." Her hands flared out like a flower at that, and she skipped a circle around Antony with the same gleeful air. "You're big! And your hair is blue. The sky is blue, too, and some kinds of fishy, and people's eyes can be blue, but why is your hair blue too?" When she stopped in front of Antony again, her smile was large and vapid. "You have a wonderful cape," she told him. As if he didn't already know!

"So I get to grow big, too? Will I be big as you? How come you don't have wings?" She leaned forward, close enough that her nose was almost touching his. Her eyes were positively huge. "Your eyes are very blue." With a satisfied smile, she followed Antony's lead and sat, but she was rather more messy about it and her skirt ended up all over. She fussed with it until it folded as she wanted to, then occupied herself with trying to copy Antony's posture.

"Wings aren't wasted on anybody, Antony," she said happily. "Everyone should have wings, then we would all be happy. I'm happy!" She looked around. "Maybe... you have blue hair. And I have wings?" It seemed like a fair exchange, especially since the blue hair was very blue and her wings were very white. And small, so she couldn't fly yet. Maybe sometime soon though. She smiled again.

She blushed. "Thanks, Antony!" But what could blue hair do that normal hair couldn't? How confusing! Lizzy gnawed on a thumbnail and looked around. "Do you know patty-cake? Hardly anyone does, I have to teach it, and I don't know how!"

"Everyone," Lizzy shouted, throwing her hands in her air. She pouted. "I don't want to be little for very long either," she told him. "Everyone talks to me like I'm a baby." The fact that she was a baby seemed to miss her completely. She smiled up at Antony happily.

"You're smart," she said, after mulling over what he had said for a while. "Do you gotta be big to be smart like you? It's more fun to talk to you than littlies." They had all been more concerned with colors and the soft toys, or else playing with the toy she was playing with. Even if sitting here, still, made her feel itchy (like she should be doing something) it was still better than before... And before had been pretty good!

"Really? Only a little bit?" That sobered her a little. "But I can't do lots. I want to do all of it now." She sighed. "S'easy for grownups to say that it's fun to be a kid." Then Lizzy brightened up again. "Kid is a term for a baby goat! Did you know that, Antony?"