video — @nobody

[villr]

[ There's a blur of color and too-bright fluorescent lights before the camera stops abruptly in front of the frozen food aisle of a grocery store. ]

See that? [ She probably means the frankly alarming amount of eggo waffles, zooming in on a few boxes for emphasis. ] They keep getting restocked somehow. [ And she's taken a lot. So she'd actually know.

Switching the camera view, Sylvie's face fills the screen. She looks awfully stern, like she's about to launch into theorizing or even a warning about the validity of the food. But she doesn't. Instead, inexplicably: ]

All of those are mine—even the ones that aren't there yet. [ ... she's serious. ] Fight me if you want, but I call dibs.

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[villr]

I'll let kids have some boxes. Or I could do exchanges.

Maybe.

[halbird]

[ he's always called kid back home. does he count as a kid? does he want to willingly take on that title here? willingly demote himself to "kid" even though he doesn't want to be "kid" for a box of unhealthy breakfast snacks? ]

How... young is a "kid" for you?

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this is just an honest question, obviously. ]