His nod is echoed by hers, her blank eyes lighting up. Now she knew the ending, she felt much safer investing herself in the rest of the story. Disappointing endings were the worst.
"Exactly, it's-- ah, okay--" Of course, finding the others would take priority. She'd asked it, after all! But now she knew he'd also enjoyed them, the need to question him on the books hummed under her skin. She'd ask after, she decided. At least she didn't need to feel bad about suborning him, if he also liked them.
She follows him to the terminal happily enough. Worst case scenario, they'll end up with two copies if the others are somewhere on the train.
"The ending seemed good," she thinks about it. "Some things weren't resolved, but it ended happily. If there were more, wouldn't there have to be more problems to come?"
"But - doesn't that mean we get to decide whether to keep looking, outside of these two books? That we get to decide if those problems exist, at least on the train?"
Such power in the hands of children! Oh boy.
"We only have to get them if we want them; that's what having to order things ourselves means."
So, while it was annoying the train didn't make the carriage with books... it wasn't necessarily all bad.
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"Exactly, it's-- ah, okay--" Of course, finding the others would take priority. She'd asked it, after all! But now she knew he'd also enjoyed them, the need to question him on the books hummed under her skin. She'd ask after, she decided. At least she didn't need to feel bad about suborning him, if he also liked them.
Two minutes later, "So?"
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"We'll have to get them from the shops, at the end of the carriage ... I wonder if there's even only four?"
It's a fair question, but he sticks to the initial parameters of the request for now.
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"The ending seemed good," she thinks about it. "Some things weren't resolved, but it ended happily. If there were more, wouldn't there have to be more problems to come?"
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"But - doesn't that mean we get to decide whether to keep looking, outside of these two books? That we get to decide if those problems exist, at least on the train?"
Such power in the hands of children!
Oh boy."We only have to get them if we want them; that's what having to order things ourselves means."
So, while it was annoying the train didn't make the carriage with books... it wasn't necessarily all bad.