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"Some jobs that you would like."

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This does not quite articulate her assessment of the situation but she does not object.

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"Your grandparents are going to come over for brunch. They would like to meet you."

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"Okay. ...Do I have to eat at brunch."

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"Only if you are hungry."

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"I'm not."

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"Well, since you seem to be very unusual we're not going to worry about what you eat unless you are unwell."

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Nod nod.

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Grandparents arrive! They comment on how she is so so so small.

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She supposes this is fair. She will let them pick her up, although she's not particularly cuddly when they have done it.

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They will want to pick her up anyway! Tiny grandchild!

 

The cook brings everybody brunch. The cook is introduced to tiny child; the cook's name is Seti. Everybody coos over her some more.

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Gosh. She waves solemnly at the cook.

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Kan's parents want to know if she likes Lina and if she likes her room and if she likes her toys!

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Lina is this city? She has only seen a little of it but it's pretty good. Her room is nice. She is fond of blocks and books.

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"She's very smart."

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"The smartest!"

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"How do you tell?"

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"It's not rare for blue or green one-year-olds to be reading but fluently is a bit rare when it's still spring. The working memory to put the cards in order for a four-person game and not get tripped up by the skip-a-turn ones, the prime numbers..."

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"You had to tell me what those were."

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"Her phrasing was 'something is wrong with eleven, I cannot make eleven tokens into a rectangle'."

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Grandparents agree that this is such a clever grandbaby.

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Giggle.

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Afen's three questions for the day are 'treaties? ambulances? rocketry?"

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"Not new, new, new."

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          "Hmm?" asks Nolime. 

"Her form of amnesia doesn't seem to extend to procedural knowledge, and I was curious what things she had procedural knowledge of. Aitim said three a day so she didn't get bored."

         "She's one, how many one-year-olds know about rocketry?"

"I suppose I can go around asking if I end up thinking that's relevant."

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