Chapter Eighteen :: Voice

[outsidehistory]

Ah...given the oddities of this week... And that it's a play week and there are visitors. [Pauses.] Lessons will be held off for however long this play week lasts. Knowing her she'll be fickle again.

To our guests... If you have questions not answered I'll try to do my best.

Comments

[outsidehistory]

Some people won't, you know. Just have to find the right ones.

[pencilpremonition]

I don't wanna gamble my brother like that. The only way to find out if they will or not is to try, and if they're the wrong ones, he's gone.

[outsidehistory]

You obviously don't hold your neighbors in high esteem.

[pencilpremonition]

They'll call social services. And social services splits up kids.

[outsidehistory]

Then find someone at school or somewhere else that you trust more.

[pencilpremonition]

They're required to call social services.

[outsidehistory]

And yet they might not if you just try hard enough.

[pencilpremonition]

I'm not risking my brother on that.

[outsidehistory]

And have you asked him what he wanted?

[pencilpremonition]

To stay with me always.

[outsidehistory]

He must be really young if he still thinks that will work.

[pencilpremonition]

Turning thirteen~.

[outsidehistory]

Then he should be getting out of that phase where he thinks anything is possible.

[pencilpremonition]

Sticking together isn't some stupid kid's dream.

[outsidehistory]

It is in considering how often they actually get to stay together. [This is a bitter subject for Lavi, he hasn't been able to stay with his friends here. 2/3rds of them have gone home.]

[pencilpremonition]

We're gonna stick together. As long as I live.

[outsidehistory]

Good luck doing that here.

[pencilpremonition]

I wish he was here.

[outsidehistory]

I wouldn't. They're better off where time is frozen while you're here.

[pencilpremonition]

I'll worry the whole time I can't keep my eye on him.

[outsidehistory]

He's frozen, he's fine.

[pencilpremonition]

I've never been away from him...not since he was born.

[outsidehistory]

Sounds like smothering to me.

[pencilpremonition]

He likes the attention.

[outsidehistory]

And mind telling me how he's going to survive without you if all you've done is coddle him?