(Maybe some day he'll tell her about the month he spent making a pirate ship out of an arcade cabinet he found in a skip in town. Granted, it was taken over all too quickly by a pregnant fox while the family spent a week in France, but he finds he wants to see her reaction to that part of the story too.)
"It didn't last long. Less than a year before Mum drew the line at Tetris fistfights." He grins and downs more of his tea. "I suppose, though, our parents thought it'd keep us from getting murderously bored when we couldn't tear about in the yard or the woods."
He takes another moment to study her, to imagine and appreciate all the things he can't possibly know.
"Were you an outdoor girl? Climbing trees when you weren't supposed to? Or more the type who wandered off at the museum to look at the bones the other kids didn't think were interesting?" he half-teases.
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Date: 2017-02-20 10:49 am (UTC)"It didn't last long. Less than a year before Mum drew the line at Tetris fistfights." He grins and downs more of his tea. "I suppose, though, our parents thought it'd keep us from getting murderously bored when we couldn't tear about in the yard or the woods."
He takes another moment to study her, to imagine and appreciate all the things he can't possibly know.
"Were you an outdoor girl? Climbing trees when you weren't supposed to? Or more the type who wandered off at the museum to look at the bones the other kids didn't think were interesting?" he half-teases.