Library, Monday

[intotheout]

Was it more or less embarrassing that Tip had only really deaged a handful of years this weekend? It made her simultaneously feel really old and really young, for one thing.

Either way, it was far from the worst thing that the island had thrown at her, so Tip figured she couldn't complain. Sure, she'd had to spend a good chunk of her morning fielding questions from her family about why she'd kept texting to ask if she was allowed to go places and do things (usually well after she'd already headed out to go to and do those things), but other than her mom laughing uproariously and J.Lo demanding pictures, her afternoon was looking perfectly calm and quiet.

So she had plenty of time to look up human development books on her library shift. And make-up tips on how to make herself look older.

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Comments

Re: NFB

[justice_undone]

"Is that what you thought? That I felt things I was unable to communicate?" Breq asked. "Where I'm from people would understand what I am. Ancillaries are expressionless. I've even made officers uncomfortable by smiling."

In a way she did feel things she was unable to communicate through expressions and body language, just not for the reason a human would.

Re: NFB

[intotheout]

"I don't know. Maybe? Or that you come from a really repressed culture. That's why you want to practice, huh? Because not having expressions is a dead giveaway."

Re: NFB

[justice_undone]

"Yes," Breq said. "That's why. It's better to practice in this place, where no one cares about it."