Room 239/240 - After the Dance club meeting [NFB]

[notcalledlizzie]

Elizabeth was curled up on her bed, a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. Hugging a stuffed dog to her chest, she's staring at the page of one of the children's books she bought from Mr Phale yesterday. But she's not turned from the first page since she opened it, and if you tried to ask her what she was reading, she couldn't say.

[ooc: The door is closed, so it's pretty much locked to roommates or anyone who knows Elizabeth well enough to talk their way in]

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[can_be_more]

"Isn't 'sorry' standard in this sort of situation? Can I ask who it was?"

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Elizabeth tilts her head. "It is, yes. I just don't feel that people should feel the need to apologize for something that they had no part in.

It was Kitty Pryde. Do you... did you know her?"

[can_be_more]

Aeryn shakes her head. "I don't think so. Were you close?"

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"No, not really. We'd spoken a few times, but that was it. It's more the idea that she's been killed, and the knowledge that it could have been someone I am close too." Elizabeth sighs.

[can_be_more]

"You're allowed to be upset."

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"I know, and I am upset. I've just got pretty good at hiding my feelings over the years."

[can_be_more]

Aeryn looks over at the reading material. "And out comes the book."

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Elizabeth half-smiles. "Teryosha. It's a Russian folk tale," she says. "I could receit most of it once upon a time, I was read it that often."

[can_be_more]

Aeryn wonders if it's weird to have something you could do that with, then decides a lot of people- maybe most- probably do. "If it makes you feel better," she says. "I'm very bad at this comfort thing."

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"It reminds me of a time when things were simpler," she says, leaning back against the wall. "When the worst thing that happened was falling over and banging your knee, or the store being out of chocolate ice-cream."

[can_be_more]

She thinks about it, and decides, "You had it easy."

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Elizabeth nods. "I did, and I'll admit to that. I was lucky, and had an idyllic childhood."

[can_be_more]

"It's good to be reminded of that, then," Aeryn says.

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"To a certain degree, yes," Elizabeth agrees. "See, you're better at this comfort thing than you think, with me talking about my childhood instead of a killing." She tries to smile.

[can_be_more]

"That was an accident, but I'm glad it if helps," she smiles.

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"It's never good to wallow in things you can't change," she says, closing the book. "You'd have thought that I'd have learnt this by now, but apparently not!"

[can_be_more]

"I think it's one of those lessons you have to keep learning. Unfortunately."

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She nods, sighing. "Yep. Which is why it's always good to talk to someone... even if it's not about the original subject."