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#WordWeavers April 5: SC POV: Who is your favorite person to be around?
Child:
Uhhhh.... Can I say the Bunny? 'Cause if not I'd have to pick between Dad and the Angel, 'cause there's no one else coming with us.
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Don't tell him, but Dad's no fun these days. It's like, yes Dad, I know the Angel's mean and bad, but can we talk about anything else?
At least the Angel shows me how to build stuff, that's kinda fun. I tell Dad I'm doing espinage– esp-pi– espi-o-nage. It's a word that means like I'm spying on him, except without the hiding part. But I'm not doing much espi-o-naging or much spying, I just wanna make some things. And even though he's a big ol' jerk, he tells me how.
#WordWeavers April 5, continued:
Angel:
That's easy: my friends back home.
I've missed our game nights, I miss listening to the Digger go on about rocks for hours on end... I guess I miss getting pranked by the Jester. He's always coming up with cool new widgets, but of course he can't show them off normally, he has to come up with a prank that makes you doubt reality for a second.
Most of all, I miss being around people who can check my work! Other than myself and the Runner, no one here in the Tunnels has even a basic level of competence. I'd count myself lucky there are two of us, but for some reason she's off wasting time instead of helping get home.
The Child gets a pass because he's young and willing to learn. He can barely hold a wrench or soldering iron, much less remember where all the parts go, but when you point out a mistake, he fixes it. That alone could make him the least-bad engineer in his generation.