Quoted By:
▲ <span class="mu-i">Emma Imeredala</span> ▲
<span class="mu-g">>Ask Clara where she found the book (nicely) and use older sister/proto-mom instinct to tell if she's lying.
Wisdom Rolls: (62), 75
Magnitude 1 = Success
>IF it's just something she found, Emma can distract Clara with breakfast and take the notebook to return it to its rightful owner later. IF NOT, then she'll have to take some time after breakfast prep to solve it for little sis. Google powers go!
Wisdom Rolls: 83, (31)
Unused
Intelligence Rolls: 7, (67)
Magnitude 1 = Success
>Try to multitask making breakfast for the family at the same time.
Dexterity Rolls: 85, (29)
Magnitude 3 = Failure</span>
<span class="mu-s">C</span>lara would technically be Emma’s cousin. Both have the same unspoken secret agreement: Clara is Emma’s little sister, Emma is Clara’s big sister, and that’s that. Labels often set barriers and priorities that Emma just didn’t want to have with someone as otherworldly sweet and gentle, so the first time Clara called her ‘sis’ the Magical Girl just rolled with it, rolled hard, and will continue to roll with it until the sky falls or the sun turns into an egg yolk.
Clara didn’t luck out; her mother became a drug addict after she started having daily panic attacks. Then got diagnosed with an anxiety disorder only recently, when the damage was already done, and now the family is spending a mountain on shrinks and pills. Abused from very early on, Emma’s very own little sister developed a degree of empathy hardly found in adults, and never in anyone with too much money.
That was Emma’s wish: a big, happy family. This is how a big happy family works. It’s not the lack of conflict that keeps it together; it’s the will to work things out. Having the chance to show this will is a blessing few are aware of.
Emma is.
>Ask Clara where she found the book (nicely) and tell if she's lying...
Emma was surprised to find that even saints lie, when it comes to chocolate. And even though the book isn’t made of chocolate (even though it is brown), it isn’t a book Emma is familiar with. Feigning surprise, Emma comments on how big the book is, that it must be for very smart people- then asks Clara, where did you find this? And the little girl simply says that mommy got it for her.
Mommy, in this case, secretly being Emma’s own mother, a tall, russian, hard-working factory role-model who was once recorded tackling a bear, pretending to be her own sister to buy her niece a math book. The wrong book.
To Clara’s confusion, Emma giggles <span class="mu-s">hard</span>.
Emma then lets Clara know that sometimes smart people can’t solve numbers either, which puzzles the little girl; what makes them smart, then? And what makes them smart, Emma tells her, is that they keep trying. Gently handing Clara the book again, Emma declares that they will solve it all together- with a full belly, as she wears the apron.
And if she won’t, Google will-
and Google will be kind enough to let her take the credit.
