smallestopener: (Mary-swap shy smile)
Ingress of the House of Arch ([personal profile] smallestopener) wrote2010-04-10 10:56 pm

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The ray gun, retrieved from lost and found, is in Ingress' hand. Actually, it's still in Ingress-as-Mary's hand. They are in Ingress' room, tucked away from the adults in the House.

"Okay. We try this, and if it doesn't work, then we'll tell Tom, and he'll figure out how to get us back."

Please work, please work, please work, she thinks.

"Ready?"
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-12 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course he would," Mary says, startled. "There are many people who would. But people are often cross with me. That does not stop me if I think I am right to do something."
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-13 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"It is not a bad thing, to be careful," Mary says. (Carefully.) "It is good to be watchful and to be prepared, and not to do things that are stupid. But you ought to think for yourself, too, in choosing how you will be careful, and what you will prepare."

(Mary doesn't quite see the irony in telling Ingress that she should listen to Mary, and thus think for herself.

"Grown-ups can be very clever, but they are wrong sometimes too. You ought not only to listen to anyone."
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-13 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Sometimes, I expect you may be more right than Megwyn is."

Megwyn is a horse.

. . . which is actually a point in her favor. Mary thinks more highly of the good sense of creatures, generally, than she does of people. But still.
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-13 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Mary considers this.

"I think," she says, honestly, "I might have liked it if I really were you - but I was not. I was only me, looking like you. That I did not like. I should rather be me, and look the way I am."
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-14 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"- really?"

Mary blinks down at her feet. They feel normal to her . . .

"Do you think I am growing again?"
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-14 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes," Mary says, with pleased serenity. "That is something I am glad to be again, as well."

Kindly: "But I am sure you shall grow more, as well."
mistressmaryquitecontrary: (older - glance)

[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-14 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"- oh, I do not think that is likely," Mary says, rather quellingly.
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[personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary 2010-04-14 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"You needn't worry," Mary says, with something that might be very slight amusement. "I should not be pleased to find you had been replaced with someone like me, either."