[vi finishes her tea and sets down the little cup gently and letting out a breath.]
We ...didn't have a lot to go around, and a lot of what we got our hands on we had to sell. [understatement of the highest order, and she chews her lip a moment, but she isn't embarrassed, just thoughtful, deciding how much to reveal: how much to make her shit someone else's problem.]
Spent my childhood in a slum, below a whole city that wanted to pretend that trash like me didn't exist. Thing is, there's 'trash' everywhere, and it doesn't have anything to do with where you live or what you have. Most of us "undercity scum", at least in The Lanes, we had each other's backs, and while it lasted it was worth a more than any fancy thing topside, even their sunlight and clean air. We had to fight for a lot of what we had. We had to fight for each other, and that meant something.
[she blinks at his compliment - it's been a long time since anyone qualifying as an adult has said something like that to her as well. now she's a bit embarrassed. not for anything she's said, but for the length of it. there's a pride in her words, though, and her smile remains as she tells what she tells.]
Ready as I'll ever be. Maybe you can tell me about your old home, or what games you like to play while we fish. Y'know, if you want to.
no subject
We ...didn't have a lot to go around, and a lot of what we got our hands on we had to sell. [understatement of the highest order, and she chews her lip a moment, but she isn't embarrassed, just thoughtful, deciding how much to reveal: how much to make her shit someone else's problem.]
Spent my childhood in a slum, below a whole city that wanted to pretend that trash like me didn't exist. Thing is, there's 'trash' everywhere, and it doesn't have anything to do with where you live or what you have. Most of us "undercity scum", at least in The Lanes, we had each other's backs, and while it lasted it was worth a more than any fancy thing topside, even their sunlight and clean air. We had to fight for a lot of what we had. We had to fight for each other, and that meant something.
[she blinks at his compliment - it's been a long time since anyone qualifying as an adult has said something like that to her as well. now she's a bit embarrassed. not for anything she's said, but for the length of it. there's a pride in her words, though, and her smile remains as she tells what she tells.]
Ready as I'll ever be. Maybe you can tell me about your old home, or what games you like to play while we fish. Y'know, if you want to.