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"They're boring," Nem countered simply. It was true, and they knew this because basically everything was boring, and even the things that weren't initially always ended up being so pretty quickly. "Hurtful. Where'd you get the impression I'm not being serious?"
Ahhh, here he was. Rainwater by name, Rainwater by nature. Raining on parades, dampening spirits, so on, so forth. "That sounds an awful lot like one of those limits you said didn't exist, sir." Which made him a liar. For shame. "I bet there's plenty of people in history who couldn't have made discoveries that changed the world without breaking a few rules here and then. Fortunately, I'm not one of them." Probably.
They simply smiled back at Nina. No extra looks. We're all friends here.
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... Perhaps it had been a little too much to expect a class activity a little more mentally stimulating than trampoline toadstools. Then again, something active was okay. Better, at least, than actually looking after a plant. So, having very little to pack away, Nem had easily bounced into the action to get collecting. Yoink, there was a blue one right there. |