#ooc

at work, and multi-tasking

still apt to go poof, minf

Got it. Same here.

I will be on AFTER nerd night, of course

so.. (;30, 10 EST

9:30

So, 6:30 to 7pm my time.

Still early, here, but you might be brain-dead. 🙂

well

depressed Z is kind of brain dead

That's why she is avoiding Earl?

Or just doesn't want to hear it? He can be unrelentingly optimistic. It's charming, but. 🙂

Heh

she had a stomach in knots over one balor parent.

Now, obviously, her mother is, at best, a kapo (like in the Shoah, Hirim says!), or at worst, has turned.

Well, Ice can offer to trade mothers....

How does -that- fit in with his spun glass ideal?

ha

It doesn't, but. G

I am thinking at this point, Janet might be willing to swap, too. *G Zara = far less likely to cause heartburn.

Everybody wins!

All Zara has to do is learn to repair cars and swear.

ha!

Z -can- swear

God, that is a funny image in my head.

it has happened, usually in yiddish

True. Seeing Zara in grey overalls, wrench in hand...

pink fuzzy earmuffs...

Hahah!

she -has- a pair, for the shop at AH

I can imagine her offering to lend them to Ice.

"Ghost, these are PINK."

now, just imagine a 7-year-old childling with them, gravely handing over bolts...

this was pretty much Z's life before wilderhood made everything complicated

hiiii

Like helping grandpa in the workshop.

yup!

She followed Hirim around like a duckling even -before- her chrysalis - had her own "workbench" in the shop, and would get him to play tea-party on the sawhorses

Now that she has the earmuffs, and the gun-range pink muffs, she can go in, but pretty much prefers not to?

well..

puberty

wilderhood

adolesence

so a lot of what is happening are growing pains. Zara still spends time in Hirim's shop, or had been - she'd go there a lot after school to do homework

except when they were at loggerheads. The pair of them are a LOT alike

Different kith, but some basic personality similarities?

Like Ice and Pynki? 😛

yup