[ oh! wow! awkward! Mabel gets the sense that this is going to be an Important Somber infodump, so she forces herself to be calm. She can tell that Malik is gonna have a hard time saying this so...she might as well help by prompting him a little, right? ]
[ he's trying to stay constrained, because yeah this is incredibly awkward! he doesn't like this, not one bit. ]
I remember a page with a motorcycle in it very clearly. I begged my sister to let me keep that page. She said I could as long as our father never saw it.
[ the validation actually gets a flicker of positive emotion! ]
I thought it was interesting and exciting... to be able to ride across the land, completely free... I had never seen anything like it before. I would have kept the whole book, if my sister had let me... but I was okay with just one page. So I took it back home with me, imaging what having a motorcycle would be like.
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Like what kind of things?
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I remember a page with a motorcycle in it very clearly. I begged my sister to let me keep that page. She said I could as long as our father never saw it.
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I thought it was interesting and exciting... to be able to ride across the land, completely free... I had never seen anything like it before. I would have kept the whole book, if my sister had let me... but I was okay with just one page. So I took it back home with me, imaging what having a motorcycle would be like.
I did get one later, after I left home.
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And? Was it everything you'd ever dreamed of?
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Actually... yes. I'm quite fond of it.
[ A.... POSITIVE EMOTION?! holy shit ]
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So where'd you get to go on your cool shiny new motorcycle?!
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[ oh yeah we're rolling with TWO COMMENTS IN A ROW of positive vibes ]
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[ gasp ] Are you saving up vouchers to buy your cool water-floating motorcycle?!
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