( There's a funny companionship found in this quiet space where they eat. She notices Eleven trying the things she tries, and she adapts to it — tries something, decides if it is good. Pushes it closer to Eleven if it is. Wrinkles her nose if it is not, but nudges it reluctantly forward just the same as if to say try it, but don't expect to like it. Most things are good. It's much rarer that they are not — and usually they're strange adult foods, like pickled things and weird vegetables.
Soon, at least one hunger is satiated, and the eating slows. She brings her feet up into the chair and wraps her arms around her knees, comfortable, perched, watching the new girl experience things the way Laura experiences things. Is this what she looks like from the outside, she wonders? Do they look the same that way? She wouldn't not mind so much if that were the case, she thinks. It would be nice to not be the only one like this around.
A name. This is a complicated topic, a conversation she's had with John and with Erik. Mutant names versus chosen names versus given names. She has two of the three. She doesn't always elaborate like this, but she wonders if the other girl will understand what she means when she says: )
I picked one. ( Rather, Gabriela chose it for her, and Laura loved Gabriela, so she kept it. It's still the one she chose, rather than the one she was given at birth. ) Laura. Do you?
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Soon, at least one hunger is satiated, and the eating slows. She brings her feet up into the chair and wraps her arms around her knees, comfortable, perched, watching the new girl experience things the way Laura experiences things. Is this what she looks like from the outside, she wonders? Do they look the same that way? She wouldn't not mind so much if that were the case, she thinks. It would be nice to not be the only one like this around.
A name. This is a complicated topic, a conversation she's had with John and with Erik. Mutant names versus chosen names versus given names. She has two of the three. She doesn't always elaborate like this, but she wonders if the other girl will understand what she means when she says: )
I picked one. ( Rather, Gabriela chose it for her, and Laura loved Gabriela, so she kept it. It's still the one she chose, rather than the one she was given at birth. ) Laura. Do you?