five: voice.

[medeafalls]

Smart. Clever. Prodigy. Words, words, words -- subtle variances require multiple words, same meaning. She had studied physics by seven. She read her brother's medical textbooks by ten. She was in college by thirteen

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[is_fear_itself]

Interesting...

I wonder if you know how mad you are.

[medeafalls]

She knows -- comparisions of previous behavior, contrasted with the average of peers. She knows. I can hear. I can see.

[is_fear_itself]

Then you realize that makes you a fascinating case study.

Although it sounds as though you've had enough of that already.

[medeafalls]

If they find the weapon again, they won't let it go. Finish what they started, and if they can't make it theirs, better to destroy it before it escapes again.

[sent_back]

River.

Calm down.

[medeafalls]

I want my brother.

[sent_back]

I know you do.

But calm down.

[medeafalls]

The threat's intangible, contact can't be made, and it's always searching. The guards are left and locked behind.

[mizrahigirl]

Are you okay?

[medeafalls]

Relative term. Means nothing in the scale of things.

[mizrahigirl]

In the scale of things-?

Tagging in with a sick and drugged up Dawn, at the clinic

[tothelibrary]

Hey. Crazy's subjective, right? You're not crazy. Maybe a little wu tou wu nao if you're going for the Chinese, but crazy involves more party hats and stoats. Also, usually badness.

[medeafalls]

Wei xian dong wu. With just a pen, I'm unstoppable.

[tothelibrary]

So's my sister. I wouldn't worry. You could be tian di wu yong. Better a pointy stick than a ground up into bits one.

[theenviousone]

Sounds like a bundle of laughs.