ballies | M-M-M-MMMMMY NIMONA

That's such an old guy thing. Balli--

[she starts, and then stops. and then starts again like she didn't say anything.]

Anyway, yeah, I bet we will. I don't know for what, other than the tokens stuff. Maybe we'll have to develop a secret code and destroy an oppressive regime or something.

Balli--?

[ ..... hmm. well, when nimona dodges the topic, she just files that one away for the moment. tama opening her mental files and filing "balli" under "possible trauma". ]

We could use binary. Or morse, I guess. But people will probably be able to figure that out... Hexadecimal?

Yooooou lost me.

[she's ignoring the balli allegations what is that. who said that.]

Types of code! Morse was literally used for coded messages.

[ she'll let this go... for now... ]

Oh, huh. Can you teach me?

Sure. It's just a lot of dashes and dots, like this--

[ she knocks her hand against something solid that i'm saying is nearby. with a bit too much force actually. ]

Ow. %&%^!

[sorry she just explodes into giggles at the censoring]

Nice job.

[ grumbling ]

There is so much to remember.

[ SMACKING HAND = HAND HURT. god. ]

[she goes ???]

Yeah? What do you mean?

[ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ]

I'm not sure it's something I want to talk about yet?

[ sometimes.

it just be that way. ]

But I'll get there.

Oh. Yeah, sure.

[no, she gets that, and she absolutely does not press in the least. in fact, she'll change the subject! we respect secrets in this house.]

So like, question: did your team leader give you guys things to do?

[ nimona is a good little gremlin. ]

Ohhh, like a task list? They did actually.

[ oh sh%t! ]

We kinda covered one talking about your world actually, although -- uhh. To make sure, could you tell me a bit more about it? Something you like or a silly fact or something will probably count.

Yeah, ours too. The world thing was on my list.

Uhh. [she thinks about it.] It's called the Kingdom, and everybody lives inside the walled up part, but nobody except for me knows there's a whole world out there past the walls because they've got their heads up their #@^%@$.

[ ..................... ]

They just... never go outside? Like outside outside?

I mean, there's an outside. It's just in a big... y'know, walled area. [she throws her arms out helpfully.] And then there's forests and stuff outside of the wall, but nobody goes there because they think there's monsters out there.

[ huh. ]

So they just... hide inside their walls.

Yeah.

[she lets her arms fall to the side, and sighs.]

Yeah. And it'll never change.

[ … hmmm. ]

Stubborn and kinda ignorant sorts?

Yeeeeeep.

[nyeh.]

… Hmm. You never know — sometimes people get a big come to Jesus Disney moment and have a change of heart.

But usually not.

Sometimes you think that people have changed the way they see you. And it turns out they lied and they never did.

So yeah. Usually not.

[...]

What the $^#&$ is Jesus Disney?

[sounds like a corporation that cancelled her movie....]

[ tama opening her trauma files and putting “nimona’s everything” into one of them. girl. ]

… Maybe. You kinda want to believe the best of people though, even if you know they can do some really terrible things.

[ oh. pff.

also get wrecked disney. ]

Two different things. Jesus is a religious thing, so… people having an epiphany or a realisation that brings about a huge and normally positive change, you could call it a ‘come to Jesus’ moment. Disney’s a big corporation that makes movies and games and theme parks to try and drain you of all the money you have.

[she is a very small bundle of very big problems, yea]

Gotcha. [she wrinkles her nose.] Ew, corporations.

What's life without a little capitalism to ruin things with greed? [ says tama, a product of capitalism. ]

Yaaay...

[jazz hands.]

Glad to see it's not just where I come from that has people who can't help themselves.

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