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Ky glanced at them, then back at her plate. It hadn’t been intended as a dig. But. Well. If the shoe fit, she’d let them wear it. Better than trying ...

“No one ever wins when war is involved,” Ky said quietly, looking at her plate.

Ky nodded quietly. That was all the verbal critique she felt like she should give. “Hmm… it doesn’t seem to be working out very well for them, does it?” Aashi ...

Ky nodded in agreement. “I don’t think even they know what they want.”

“What?” She looked at him curiously, engaged once again. “What did you do? Did you get put in time out?”

“Yeah.” She shoved a too-big bite of scrambled eggs into her mouth, missing at first and hitting her chin before she pushed it into her mouth with her fingers. “I ...

“Oh.” She nodded, satisfied with the answers at last. “Okay.”

“Oh… yeah.” She nodded. “…but you do worry about people. You were worried about Papa and Ky and that’s why we’re here, right? Cause you’re worried?”

“Oh, like me!” Tasia said with a grin. “And Mama and Papa. You said we could come in.”

“So people have to ask you before they’re allowed to trade toys?” Tasia asked.

“What rules do you make? Do you put people in time out?”

“Run all over a tertitorerer.”

“How do you do that?”

(Lmao Gaius using these words to a four-year-old ) Tasia stared at him, getting progressively more bewildered. It made her feel stupid. She didn’t know what any of these things ...

Tasia just stared at him, mouth slightly agape. “What?”