Little Wendy wasn’t allowed any more pets after the hamster and the cleaning products needed to be locked up in the house. I remember not being able to reach the high cabinets. Had to climb up on the counters but I didn’t know how to pick a lock. I was 10.
[ ah — so that's how and why she can no longer go home. an unfortunate circumstance that he hopes never to encounter — nathaniel and sok leng must live on with or without him.
[ she's not an open book and he still has secrets of his own that hasn't been revealed to the world. august reads her reply over and over again, wondering what to say — except he doesn't. this entire conversation has been one of the most where he's actually tried to communicate with someone.
a sigh leaves his lungs before he closes the messages portion of the phone. later, perhaps. ]
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I was a complete menace when I was a kid.
I enjoy making you feel good in general.
I thought you caught onto that one already…
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What was Little Wendy like to be considered a complete menace?
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[How’s this for absolute whiplash:]
Little Wendy wasn’t allowed any more pets after the hamster
and the cleaning products needed to be locked up in the house.
I remember not being able to reach the high cabinets. Had to climb up on the counters but I didn’t know how to pick a lock.
I was 10.
[Ah shit. Major overshare.]
That was a lot wasn’t it
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What exactly did you do to the pets to cause such a lockdown, Wendy?
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I wanted to see how it worked.
The chemicals were unrelated.
Nearly burned the house down once.
The other time it was a toxic vapor I accidentally whipped up.
[And that, ladies and gents, is how she went from horse girl to STEM girl.]
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Is that why you wish not to return home?
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No…
He’s got that all wrong. (Probably because she still hasn’t fully explained it to him.)]
It doesn’t exist anymore.
Don’t know how I’d end up there even if I could.
The timeline is probably fixed. I should be dead.
[The whole planet included in that.]
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other topics later. for now: ]
My apologies, Wendy.
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I’m not an open book for a reason.
[It’s complicated.]
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a sigh leaves his lungs before he closes the messages portion of the phone. later, perhaps. ]