She listened to the story as they made their way back, laughing appropriately, but still a little puzzled by the whole thing. "You know, it's the stupidest things that ruin me for conversation around here," she said, shockingly honest for the first time in a long time. "Words and things that I don't know. Like 'Spanish'. Films I haven't seen. They're all just little things, but they add up to make me realize how alien I am around here."
It was strange, trying to pick out what parts were the same and what were different without giving herself away. She was pretty good at it. All the same, it didn't stop her from wanting to shake people know and then, and just scream I don't know what the frak you're talking about! And that was frightening. For now and for what the future might bring if the fleet did make it to Earth. When they made it to Earth.
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Date: 2007-05-17 04:36 pm (UTC)It was strange, trying to pick out what parts were the same and what were different without giving herself away. She was pretty good at it. All the same, it didn't stop her from wanting to shake people know and then, and just scream I don't know what the frak you're talking about! And that was frightening. For now and for what the future might bring if the fleet did make it to Earth. When they made it to Earth.