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[revolter]

Who: Matilda Wormwood and YOU.
What: playing hopscotch with flying stones!
When: This afternoon.
Where: Near the garden!!
Rating: G



[ she should have asked if she was allowed to draw on the pavement near the garden. But Matilda had figured that if she wasn't, she'll wash the chalk away.

It was a good practice for her power more than just a game. She knew this was something many kids usually played together but having grown up the way she did, she didn't mind playing alone.

To those who might pass her she might seem like a true wonder. A small child in a blue dress making a stone rise into the air before it is elegantly placed down on a numbered square for her to hop on the other numbered blocks to get it back. After she retrieves it, she hops back only to lay it on the ground and make it float up and onto one of the chalk squares again.

She'll accept playmates. ]

Comments

[jthm]

[ Aww she reminded him of that one doll he stuffed with blended rats. How cute.
He hesitated a bit, but decided to walk up to her out of complete and utter curiosity.]

How are you able to do that?

[revolter]

[ She looks back, blinks and then shrugs a bit. ]

I just can. It's my power, I don't really know how. I do it with my eyes.

[jthm]

You must be a magical little girl.

[revolter]

I don't know that it's magic.

[ she doesn't know if there really is magic at all. ]

I just know that it is my power. Maybe it isn't magic at all. It's the only thing I can do magic is more vast. At least, from what I've read about it.

[jthm]

Well I think it's magic. I think that you're one special little girl with a very interesting power.

[revolter]

Thank you.

[ she smiles, throws the stone again. ]

I'm Matilda.

[jthm]

[He takes a seat on the ground next to her]

Well hello Matilda, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'd love to tell you who I am but you'll have to keep it a secret.

[revolter]

I can keep a secret -

[ after all, it's not kind to tell. ]

[jthm]

Well then my little secret keeper, my name's Johnny. But you can call me Nny if you want.

just don't tell anyone else okay?

[Oddly enough, she reminded him of his little neighbor Squee from back home. He always did like that kid.]

[revolter]

Which do you prefer, Johnny or Nny?

[ a beat and ]

I won't tell.

[jthm]

Pick whatever you like kiddo

[revolter]

I'll choose Nny, I think. Because it's more unique, I never met anyone named Nny before.

[jthm]

Alright then Nny it is! Now don't tell anyone okay? It'll ruin the surprise.

[revolter]

Don't worry, my lips are sealed!

[ and they will be! ]

Do you want to play?

[jthm]

Play what exactly?

[revolter]

Hopscotch, see you throw the stone and then you have to hop one foot to get it back and then hop to the square that says home and then back.

[jthm]

Huh...honestly, I haven't played this game in a while.

[He bends down to pick up a stone and tosses it at one of the boxes. Then hops over to get it.]