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[ordalias]

[ She's been contemplating this, yes, ever since she got her ass handed back to her by Vanitas. She's lost, sure, many times in fact... but this one in particular... ]

How... when do you know you're strong? That you're not weak?

[ She might end that last sentence in a bitter hiss. Sure, she's lost, but when it involves her friends (and Pokemon), it becomes another thing. She couldn't beat Vanitas, came out even more battered, and well aware her appearance would worry friends. So lately she's been hanging around the roof of Goldenrod City's Department Store.

It sounds like she's going to say more, but whatever it is dissolves into a sigh and stops. ]

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

You're not that old, right? [ Pauses. ] How old is "old," really?

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[paladinlost]

For wrinkles? Mid-forties, perhaps. That's still a few years away.

[And a certain paladin won't be getting them for quite a few more decades, really.]

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

You're in your thirties?

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[paladinlost]

Indeed. Closer to forty than to thirty, to be honest.

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

Wow, you... really don't look like that at all.

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[paladinlost]

I've been told a few times. It's something of a family trait.

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

Hm... [ Bit of a pause here. ] Cecil, how old do you think I am?

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[paladinlost]

I'd say... Fourteen? Fifteen? I'm better at guessing boys' ages.

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

You're right. [ She thinks about it. It has been some time, but... ] I should be fifteen. [ "Should be." ]

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[paladinlost]

Should be? I suppose it'd depend on the exact number of days since you arrived...

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

It's been...


281 days since I arrived in Johto. 357 days back in my world...

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[paladinlost]

In a year? Yours are shorter than Johto's.

[Even if he has a feeling that's not it.]

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

No, that was how many days that passed before I came here.

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[paladinlost]

...You're rather tall for one only 836 days old.

[Hear that sound? It's the sound of Cecil's brain breaking.]

[video] shouldn't it be 634? fff, added up the days to today, too

[ordalias.livejournal.com]

Really? Everyone seems big compared to me.

[ Totally forgetting what they were really talking about. So did Cecil figure it out...? ]

[video] ...638, I think. I blame the late hour for this. *headdesk*

[paladinlost]

You might still have a growth spur or two to go through.

[It's either "younger than she looks", "born fully formed from Zeus' head" or "complete anterograde amnesia", at that point. He's not sure he should ask.]

[video] fff, no worries /soothes

[ordalias.livejournal.com]

Growth spurt?

[ The Zeus idea sounds awesome. Aw, he's sure? ]

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[paladinlost]

Teenagers often grow within a short period of time. Fifteen would be the time for a last one, I believe.

[But KH only has Hades! ...Do you really want him to realize he gave the Talk to a girl that young?]

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

Oh. How would I know?

[ ... lol oh god, but at least it means he doesn't have to explain it to her again?! ]

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[paladinlost]

You'll feel a terrible pain in your bones for a few weeks, and your clothes will stop fitting you just as you need them.

[Yaaay. He'll leave that job to Leon, next time.]

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

But it's essential, right?

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[paladinlost]

It is. It's one of the steps towards becoming an adult.

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

[ Sighs. ] I still have a long way to go, don't I?

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[paladinlost]

It's a shorter than you think, in retrospect. What seems long to a child is othing but a fleeting moment to an adult.

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[ordalias.livejournal.com]

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