Kaoru, do not laugh, this is serious! I promised her pretty necklace I had, but it was lost in flood... I was so sure I would not lose, but now I will not know! [Life is so hard for this mermaid. SO hard.
She sighs deeply and turns the crude doll over in her hands a few times, playing with it to distract herself.] Perhaps part of lesson is learning we were too, hmm, complacent. [Look at her, using her vocabulary words] Could do without that lesson. [But Oona grins a little, having caught the unspoken "it probably won't be good" sentiment.]
But, more likely, they will try to make things easy and will instead make things harder, yes? It is how these things go. We can never "catch a break," as they say.
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She sighs deeply and turns the crude doll over in her hands a few times, playing with it to distract herself.] Perhaps part of lesson is learning we were too, hmm, complacent. [Look at her, using her vocabulary words] Could do without that lesson. [But Oona grins a little, having caught the unspoken "it probably won't be good" sentiment.]
But, more likely, they will try to make things easy and will instead make things harder, yes? It is how these things go. We can never "catch a break," as they say.