( She's asking the right person — more or less. Not the best communicator out of all of the Abandoned, particularly not in her second language over her first, but she's got experience. Been here long enough to have seen things, to know things.
She nods. )
Si. The first parties had candy that made you tell the truth. Even if you didn't want to talk.
( Ask her how she knows. It wound up working out alright for her in the end; she met John, and now John is her friend. But she'd been angry at the time, forced to speak when she hadn't been ready yet. She is supposed to be able to decide when she talks and what she says. Words have been the only thing she's gotten to control from herself since the beginning, and the only thing she had to give away or keep.
Yes. Tricks are common here. In the food, in the flowers. )
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She nods. )
Si. The first parties had candy that made you tell the truth. Even if you didn't want to talk.
( Ask her how she knows. It wound up working out alright for her in the end; she met John, and now John is her friend. But she'd been angry at the time, forced to speak when she hadn't been ready yet. She is supposed to be able to decide when she talks and what she says. Words have been the only thing she's gotten to control from herself since the beginning, and the only thing she had to give away or keep.
Yes. Tricks are common here. In the food, in the flowers. )