You can't say c'mon, Ros as though I've ever known a sentient tree. Even I hadn't met someone like that before.
[Odd, how she's all right with him calling her by that nickname. Why? Is it because he's so aggressively casual himself, or because he's not human, and so the inherent patronizing disrespect is missing? Perhaps that's it. It doesn't sound like a diminutive when he says it; he's no man trying to subtly put her lower than himself.
But ah, she owes him an answer, doesn't she?]
As for what I meant before by not entirely human . . . simply that. I'm, ah, something a bit different.
[There's no easy word for what she is, unfortunately, and so she settles on:]
I am-- or I was, once-- something a bit like a ghost.
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[Odd, how she's all right with him calling her by that nickname. Why? Is it because he's so aggressively casual himself, or because he's not human, and so the inherent patronizing disrespect is missing? Perhaps that's it. It doesn't sound like a diminutive when he says it; he's no man trying to subtly put her lower than himself.
But ah, she owes him an answer, doesn't she?]
As for what I meant before by not entirely human . . . simply that. I'm, ah, something a bit different.
[There's no easy word for what she is, unfortunately, and so she settles on:]
I am-- or I was, once-- something a bit like a ghost.