It was as easy as breathing. His arms wrapped around his sister the moment the Insanitor handed her over, and he let the girl wrap around him like a snake, or a beloved lizard. But he wasn't through with Mimsy, because that particular jump to answer a question with a
lie was startling him into dumbfounded silence. He turned his head to stare at her, one of his eyebrows arched so high it was threatening to secede from his face and form it's own state.
What are you playing at? The words were mouthed with an over-expressive nature, so she would not misunderstand them and think he was saying
I am secretly in love with you or anything ridiculous such as that. He was watching very closely, trying to figure out if this was all an attempt to upset his sister, or manipulate him into doing something for her.
Because he was pretty sure, a few moments ago, he was about to break her neck against that wall and -
And there was always the possibility she was just
into that. Robert hugged Poe just a little tighter.
"Go on,
girlfriend." He didn't even know her
name. He had to call her
that. It was
beyond ridiculous. "Give my sister's pet Insanitor a hug. He's
harmless."
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