[It's like he almost was expecting her to confirm his hopes that oh, right, she didn't mean that. And then she feinted.]
And how old are you when you enter the Enclave?
[Please say "thirteen, it's a really short turnaround", he wishes. It would still be...wrong (Dixon can't dredge up another word, but eloquence was never his strong suit), but at least not full-on pre-teen wrong.]
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[It's like he almost was expecting her to confirm his hopes that oh, right, she didn't mean that. And then she feinted.]
And how old are you when you enter the Enclave?
[Please say "thirteen, it's a really short turnaround", he wishes. It would still be...wrong (Dixon can't dredge up another word, but eloquence was never his strong suit), but at least not full-on pre-teen wrong.]