( This makes Two Times she has been picked up in a manner outside of violence, and she's pleased to report that the experience is Very Different. It's far nicer, and she could get used to it — even if she is, perhaps, already getting a little too old for such things. She's running out of time to enjoy the novelty of it before she really is too old, before the teenage years hit and her small growth spurt of height hits with it.
She listens to him as they walk, leisurely and unhurried and comfortable; she does not stop for birds, they're too far away, and she has already gotten to pet two, even if one of the birds was a woman. She does stop for farm animals, and manages to add 'sheep' to her list of Things She Has Met — because apparently in the context of animals, met means touched.
Soon, nature is all around them, and she is smiling at the sight of it. It hasn't gotten old, not to a girl who spent her whole life within the confines of concrete and steel walls. )
Are they the same here? As they would be where we come from, on our world?
( Our world, because they come from the same one. She wonders — is he still alive there? She doesn't know. She wants to ask about something related to it, but-- she'll ask in a moment. When it feels more natural. )
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She listens to him as they walk, leisurely and unhurried and comfortable; she does not stop for birds, they're too far away, and she has already gotten to pet two, even if one of the birds was a woman. She does stop for farm animals, and manages to add 'sheep' to her list of Things She Has Met — because apparently in the context of animals, met means touched.
Soon, nature is all around them, and she is smiling at the sight of it. It hasn't gotten old, not to a girl who spent her whole life within the confines of concrete and steel walls. )
Are they the same here? As they would be where we come from, on our world?
( Our world, because they come from the same one. She wonders — is he still alive there? She doesn't know. She wants to ask about something related to it, but-- she'll ask in a moment. When it feels more natural. )