Ah, no, no! I don't doubt that, Alice-chan, it's justβ!
[ She releases her to wave her hands apologetically, but her eagerness in doing so... perhaps to someone older, might betray that, yes, she doubts that, essentially. Arashi was a very nice thirteen-year-old boy. And a nice fourteen-year-old boy. And he loved her very deeply. And still hurt her β confusing it for love. It even confused Miwako; it still does, years later. She doesn't trust teenagers, from personal experience, not to be, well, teenaged... And in fact, if this is the same thirteen-year-old β because really, how many children are there here?! β that Miwako is imagingin, she's in fact already spoken to him herself and was giving him life advice telling him to pursue those feelings... She's suddenly eating her words. ]
I'm sure he's very nice, Alice-chan, butβ ...children can't look after other children... It's too much for both of you. I know I'm only ten years older, butβ ...Remember when you were five? Aren't you so much a different person in just two years? Like that. Times five. Life's just too big for a thirteen-year-old to take care of a seven-year-old. Especially in a place like this...!
[ Miwako's not even sure what she's proposing herself as she says it, but her line of thinking is already on an express path, motherly babysitter instincts kicking in automatically before she's even proposed the idea to herself... Are you catching what she's laying down, Alice? ]
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[ She releases her to wave her hands apologetically, but her eagerness in doing so... perhaps to someone older, might betray that, yes, she doubts that, essentially. Arashi was a very nice thirteen-year-old boy. And a nice fourteen-year-old boy. And he loved her very deeply. And still hurt her β confusing it for love. It even confused Miwako; it still does, years later. She doesn't trust teenagers, from personal experience, not to be, well, teenaged... And in fact, if this is the same thirteen-year-old β because really, how many children are there here?! β that Miwako is imagingin, she's in fact already spoken to him herself and was giving him life advice telling him to pursue those feelings... She's suddenly eating her words. ]
I'm sure he's very nice, Alice-chan, butβ ...children can't look after other children... It's too much for both of you. I know I'm only ten years older, butβ ...Remember when you were five? Aren't you so much a different person in just two years? Like that. Times five. Life's just too big for a thirteen-year-old to take care of a seven-year-old. Especially in a place like this...!
[ Miwako's not even sure what she's proposing herself as she says it, but her line of thinking is already on an express path, motherly babysitter instincts kicking in automatically before she's even proposed the idea to herself... Are you catching what she's laying down, Alice? ]