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 Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:03 am
Ankita raised an eyebrow. She sounded like a child, and the general area of which she felt her petting Sarava gave indication to her being a child. So she assumed she was one of those children who was really fixated with acting like an adult.
"Well hon, a sweety like you shouldn't be walking around all alone, just in case something happens."
She could only imagine the things that could happen to a small kid wandering around alone here.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:10 am
Wing Ting saw the eyebrow, heard the patronizing tone, and felt that she should probably explain. "I'm sixteen," She said, trying to make it sound matter-of-fact, except it sort of sounded whiny. "Really, I am. But I'm short and stuff, see?" Wing Ting hopped up and down for good measure, indicating that she really was very, very small. "And don't worry, if anything attacks me or anything I'll just scream a lot and they'll run away or something. I've got it all planned out!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:16 pm
Ankita was confused.
Small person, small fingers, small hands, little voice. Sixteen year old? Something didn't quite add up. Of course the jumping around that she heard wans't helping much in constructing the image of a child.
"Sixteen?" Ankita shook her heads. "Are you sure you don't mean six?" Sarava had to agree, there was no way this kid could be over 10.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:35 pm
Wing Ting sighed. "No, sixteen. People where I come from are naturally this tall, cause there's not enough food, and you can be super tall without food. So people are short," Wing Ting cocked her head to one side, before a horrifying thought over took her. "You don't think...other people think I'm this short because I'm a little kid, do you?" Oh God, that would be awful.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:47 pm
Ankita couldn't quite grasp onto the idea but decided to let her have her moment.
"Well... to be honest, I'd imagine so..."
She had to think for a good while. It sounded logical. But it just didn't seem to click very well with her.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:46 am
Wing Ting blinked up at the older woman, and then decided to explain further. "Cause, your body's made up of little building blocks, right, called cells, and they eat food to get bigger and then duplicate so you can grow big and strong, but if you don't eat, they can't grow big and duplicate, so you can't grow." Wing Ting shifted her weight around nervously. "But there's a lot of really tall people here, I guess cause there's more food or something," Wing Ting said, smiling up at Ankita. She was really tall.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:28 pm
Ankita was slightly offended. She wasn't done, and really wasn't particularly fond of a child treating her as such.
"Hon, I.. know how people grow. Just because I can't particularly see, doesn't really mean that I can't understand that." Her voice was slightly monotone.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:34 pm
Wing Ting blinked.
She couldn't see?
Wait, what?
OH MY GOD SHE WAS BLIND!?
"Uh...oh...ddddddkkkkkk." Wing Ting said, staring up at Ankita with a look of complete and utter horror on her face. True, she was being completely nonsensical, but she hoped that something along the lines of, "I apologize for my extreme affront, and I hope you will forgive me." "I didn't...know...uh...blegh. Sorry?" She finally managed to squeak out.
This didn't help her case at all for being a sixteen-year-old, it really didn't.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:44 pm
Ankita relaxed quickly, and felt the strong need to roll her eyes. She wondered if she should just create a sign that stated 'Blind =/= Stupidity' and plaster it onto her forehead so that people would firstly, know she was blind, and secondly, not create some idea that she was stupid due to it.
"It's fine.." She said quietly under a sigh.
Sarava at this point was wondering why Ankita hadn't exactly laid down a nice cup of whoop a** on the kid yet, and figured that how much she acts up must have caused Ankita to be so patient with others.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:49 pm
Wing Ting shook her head. "No no, it's not okay, I'm really really really sorry. I guess I wasn't thinking. Don't be mad," She said. It came out in a big rush like her lungs were deflating. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, I just thought that you...or...well, I don't know what I was thinking, probably not a lot." She could have smacked herself between the eyes. What an idiot. Idiot. IDIOT.
It was just as bad that, well, she kept insulting people, but she had no idea of what she was doing before she actually got people staring at her with hurt expressions or angry expressions or shaking her around or punching trees! Wing Ting shook her head dismally.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:55 pm
Ankita started to feel bad. She really hated making people feel bad, especially people she didn't really know, disregarding whether or not they should feel as such.
She put out her hand to pat her on her head and smiled softly.
"Really, it's okay. You didn't know."
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:00 pm
Wing Ting felt awful. Awful with a capital 'aw.' She was tired, too, suddenly, and she didn't feel like speaking much anymore. "Mm, kay." She muttered between sniffs: her nose was running. "So, you're not going to be mad at me and hate me, are you?" She asked, her hands locked behind her back. She was shifting her weight back and forth again, the picture of insecure childhood.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:09 pm
Ankita laughed, ruffling up Wing Ting's hair, then pinching her cheek. Yes, she had heard she was 16, but that wouldn't erase the image of a child that existed in her mind.
"No, of course not."
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:17 pm
Wing Ting gave her a watery smile. "That's good, I was worried. Maybe I should go...do something now. If I'm bothering you, I mean. I guess, maybe." Wing Ting said quietly. "Not even, because I'm bothering you, but I kind of want to be alone now. Which is weird, for me." Suddenly, a thought occurred to Wing Ting. "Ankita, how should I apologize for kicking someone?" Wing TIng asked, blushing furiously. "I mean, should I do it at a distance, or bring presents?" She really had no idea, but surely Ankita would know.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:29 pm
Ankita raised an eyebrow.
"Kicking someone..?" She thought for a moment and instantly her mind went to Hadrian. She wondered if it was possible that this was the one who kicked him, but quickly shook it off. Too much of a coincidence.
"Well, I think bringing a present would be a good idea. Maybe something you made yourself to really show you mean it. Doing it from a distance makes it less intimate..."
Yeah, go the kick a** route, it worked for me. Sarava laid with a pleased expression in Ankita's arms. Ha, piss on someone and you get a fruit. How wonderful.
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