She points to the hair clip. "Try moving that."

"Which way?"

"Maybe try Sympathy first?"

Okay. Come on, hair clip, please scoot.

nope

Pleaaaaase?

nope

"It's not working."

"What did you try?"

"...asking nicely?"

"Hm, okay, so like--if that doesn't work, you could try arguments along the line of 'you're my hair clip, you're used to me moving you around, this isn't that different,' stuff like that."

"...can't you move things that aren't yours?"

"Yeah? That's an example, there are other tacks you could try."

"I might not be creative in the right way if it's always like that." Hair clip, you are Peka's hair clip. She could totally push you with her hand. You are a hair clip and cannot reasonably prefer the more-touching solution to this problem so just go.

nada

"I'm losing an argument with a hair clip."

Giggle. "Try Effort."

Go, hairclip. Grrrrrrr.

Hairclip does not go.

But grrrrrrrrr.

And yet!

GRRRRRRRRR.

Nothing.

"Thought: are the attempts hurting at all?"

"No."