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Ren "Renothy Cat" ([personal profile] catpiper) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr 2017-09-11 06:08 am (UTC)

There's a bunch of things she hears from Taako in that moment that makes her turn her head and look up at him, momentarily distracted from the packing. The hundreds of years comment doesn't throw her off as much, as she already met another beachside with a similar age. It's weird and she doesn't quite understand how they can live so long, but it's easy enough to accept. The biggest surprise of all is they didn't have a family, like her, and they did play hide and seek a lot. Which sounds fun, honestly. Despite the cheater. Even with her limited game knowledge, she knows it's a bad to do that. There's a pause on her end as she looks up at him, because she still wants to go along with them, even if she can't keep up for the centuries they can go for. "I can't play that long, but I won't cheat like they did. Can I still play?"

Hopefully they still let her. Either way, she goes back to her packing, securing the last items that will fit in between some leaves. People watching is difficult to do when corpses don't move and most ghosts aren't interested in talking. It takes a moment and tries to think as far back as she can. No real families come to mind though. "I remember one from a story, but they didn't play games."

The pages were torn up and battered, but she can see the images in her mind. It had been a cute book, as far as she could tell. Too bad she never got to the end to see how the family acted the whole way. Still, she recites what she recalls from from memory. "There were three bears and they were a family. They ate something called porridge and they had nice beds." It's not a straight answer, but it's probably telling enough. It's not like she's trying to hide it, so much as answer truthfully. She did watch that family. In the book.

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