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Andi and Robin become fast friends. Andi picks up a secondhand drum set for a steal on Craigslist and wheedles Renée into paying for lessons, and soon drums merrily away to Robin's guitaring and singing.
Trouble makes dessert for the Swans once or twice a week, demonstrating both the stability of his peculiar motives and his diverse baking abilities. Souffles do not transport well, but all sorts of cakes, pies, muffins, tarts, brownies, and cookies do just fine on the bus trip from an undisclosed location to the Swan household. He misses a lot of school without explanation.
The second Monday of October, Andi (followed shortly by Bella) plops down by Robin at lunch and says, "Hi! How was your weekend?"
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"And I have no distinguishing criteria to inquire after, I suppose."
aeskhyne
"Yeah. So I guess - what's the difference to you? What's it mean to you if it's one thing or the other?"
Bella thinks about this. She scratches a few lines of cipher into her current notebook, and looks at them.
"Mostly," she concludes, "it would only be useful information if you were going to behave in some relatively customary way with either disposition."
"Mostly," she concludes, "it would only be useful information if you were going to behave in some relatively customary way with either disposition."
aeskhyne
He grins.
"I love you, I want to give you nice feelings. Cake does that."
Speaking of which, mmmm. Cake.
"I love you, I want to give you nice feelings. Cake does that."
Speaking of which, mmmm. Cake.
"About you? Nothing definitive. But there is a big blank space around your home life."
"I might ask questions, but I think you'd lie to me; I think you've probably done so before."
"I don't. That doesn't remove - whatever incentives you have to do it. Did you think I liked it, before?"
aeskhyne
"Nah. But that was then," he says, shrugging. (A fleeting wince crosses his face as the movement shifts his broken arm.) "Question is, if I stop lying, am I gonna regret it?"
...That is an interesting wince.
"I don't know what would make you regret it."
"I don't know what would make you regret it."
aeskhyne
"If I told you something I don't want anybody else to know, and somebody else found out."
"Do you think we'd be overheard, or do you just expect me to run around telling tales?"
