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the daughters of gleam and elathea have some growing pains
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"A graceful descent."

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"Onto your butt."

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"I'm pretty sure you hadn't meant to do it before you started falling."

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"I did once I started! I would've fallen on my face if I kept going all the way." She pauses, then - "Like I used to..."

She scrunches up her face. Then, to her parents, slowly: "So... Being smart about what I tell Samira to do is like that? Like - learning how to fall less, but also how to not get hurt when I do?"

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"A bit like that, yes."

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"...'Kay."

"I'll work hard on it."

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"I'm sure you will."

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"I'm a fast learner."

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"Yeah, you are."

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"We both are."

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Hee!


With breakfast and lecture over, the twins can head out to run around for a bit.

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Yeah. Getting lectured was... Okay, she learned some stuff, but it wasn't fun, and chasing her sister around is.

Can her sister run and jump any better?

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Turns out... yeah. She can.

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"Cool!" Layla giggles. "I'm going to have to figure out some way to beat you in races now...:

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"Find new ways to cheat?"

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"It's only cheating if there's formal rules you get caught breaking."

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"So you're saying I should make some rules."

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"Well, the point of rules is to make things equal..."

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"If you say so."

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"So they'd have to give us an equal chance to win."

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"Maybe I just have to go farther than you."

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"Or accept a handicap."

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"Maybe."

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"We might have to test out which rules work best."

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"Do experiments."

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