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[It's the middle of winter. It's cold outside.

So Rei is swimming inside. Now that the hippopotamus is gone, the pool is free again.

While she's swimming back and forth the length of the pool, she left her tape player sitting near the edge, where she can see it and reach it easily.]

Date: 2011-01-02 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com
[She's quiet for a moment, arms wrapped around her legs.]

Adopt.

Date: 2011-01-02 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
It would not be the same. [Nations are nations, and humans grow up and die much too fast.]

Date: 2011-01-02 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com
[It's a distinction she hasn't made and probably wouldn't understand anyway.]

No.

Date: 2011-01-04 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
...Are you human? [It's a fleeting thought, and in this place, does not seem intrusive.]

Date: 2011-01-05 02:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com
[There's a long pause before she answers.]

Maybe.




No.

Date: 2011-01-05 08:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
Can your kind have children?

Date: 2011-01-05 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com
I don't know. [She doubts it though.]

Date: 2011-01-06 11:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
You never thought about it?

Date: 2011-01-06 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
You seem old enough to have children.

Date: 2011-01-07 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
But it is no ption for you?

Date: 2011-01-13 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
Why?

[She definitely does not look like a nun.]

Date: 2011-01-13 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com
You still have a chance in this place.

Date: 2011-01-13 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] second-first.livejournal.com
[She's quiet a moment.]

Jack calls me mom.