[Nill taps the middle can again. Then her finger drifts down to tap the bottom can, as well.]
Only a few kinds of people live in the places that I've lived.
[She's not quite looking at Lisbeth, though. Instead she puts her finger between the top and middle cans, and pushes the tower over so that all three fall. They don't explode, thankfully, but Lisbeth probably shouldn't open those ones.
It isn't exactly that Nill wants to be truthful about it with Lisbeth. It's just that most people don't ask, and the ones that do probably wouldn't actually want to hear the answer. Lisbeth does, though, and she isn't the sort of person that needs to be protected from truths like this one.]
I don't know which memory is real. In one I was young, and they were pulled out. In the other, I was like this as long as I can remember. Maybe they took them when I was born.
People like me are meant to be less than human, and that's how they made sure we stayed that way.
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Only a few kinds of people live in the places that I've lived.
[She's not quite looking at Lisbeth, though. Instead she puts her finger between the top and middle cans, and pushes the tower over so that all three fall. They don't explode, thankfully, but Lisbeth probably shouldn't open those ones.
It isn't exactly that Nill wants to be truthful about it with Lisbeth. It's just that most people don't ask, and the ones that do probably wouldn't actually want to hear the answer. Lisbeth does, though, and she isn't the sort of person that needs to be protected from truths like this one.]
I don't know which memory is real. In one I was young, and they were pulled out. In the other, I was like this as long as I can remember. Maybe they took them when I was born.
People like me are meant to be less than human, and that's how they made sure we stayed that way.