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[cold_dry_pieces]

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[A flash of white, a burst of static. The feed comes on at on odd angle, showing an unremarkable City ceiling. The device, knocked off a counter, rolls a little, angling up from the floor to show a boy climbing up onto a chair so he can reach the kitchen cabinets. He knocks over a couple of boxes but manages not to break anything, before gingerly climbing down with a bowl in hand. This he sets on the counter, shuts the door, then shoves the chair back off screen. Tossing his dark hair out of his eyes, he comes back for the bowl and vanishes from the video, which stays trained on the now-closed cabinet until it times out.]




|[ooc; small Biney is small! replies from all_he_saw ]|

Comments

[synanthrope]

Small, then?

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

I'm the big one.

[synanthrope]

You take care of him.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

[synanthrope]

Who takes care of you?

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Mom.

[synanthrope]

I don't have one of those.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Everyone has a mom.

[synanthrope]

Mine left me when I was a baby.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Did she go to jail?

[synanthrope]

No. She didn't want to raise a baby. She left me with my father.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Why?

[synanthrope]

I don't know. I've never met her.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's good.

[synanthrope]

No?

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Moms are supposed to take care of their kids.

[synanthrope]

Perhaps.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

They are.

[He has all of a child's certainty pinned to that. And, after a pause;]

Sometimes she calls a sitter.

[synanthrope]

What do you do with your sitter?

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Watch T.V. mostly.

[synanthrope]

Very efficient.

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[synanthrope]

Nevermind. How about I take you for something, instead. Ice cream?

[all-he-saw.livejournal.com]

I like ice cream!

[synanthrope]

I've noticed almost everybody does.