*the girl who loves you would like to say hello, Ros--hello--!* *Hero doesn't even need an excuse to see him; she just sits down happily on the floor beside him and smiles* O! *spots!*

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*smiles very brightly back, reaching for a bottle of fire engine red or something similiarly silly* well, hello, there, miss.

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Art thou now well? *crinkling her forehead a little concernedly* Thou wert ill--!

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was i -- ? i expect it must've been a seasonal thing -- i'm very resilient, you know -- *had malaria -- this boy makes no sense, but anyway, frowns a bit* you weren't worried, were you?

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*sits on her stomach to watch, for all the world like a little girl -- grow up, Hero, and get off the floor -- and beams at him apologetically* O--ay...! Ay, for thou wert so ill.

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*wanders over, then, as she finds Ros to be absolutely darling*

Well hello, dear! I must say, that is a very pretty nail color you've got there.

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*looks up with a flattered little blush -- finds daisy to be absolutely charming* ... well, it's paint, you know ... my real nail color isn't half so interesting. *stretches out a hand, thoughtful*

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*smiles and takes a seat* Yes. Nailpolish, right? My real nail color isn't very interesting, either. But you put a bit of polish on there and it's absolutely gorgeous. *looks at the outstretched hand* My, my. Is that a ladybug I see?

We'll just pretend that I didn't post that from my journal first...

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nailpolish -- ? is that what it is, then? *smiles and curls her fingers back a little (but oh, careful, don't want to smudge)* well, it's painted like a ladybug. i think they're quite cute ... ladybugs are.

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That would be the name of it, yes. *smiles* Aren't they, though? If I remember correctly, my daughter likes ladybugs. You've got a pretty good representation of one, there.

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*and she's still a he, confusingly clothed in her brother's -- now sister's, alas alack and perplexity -- garb, and watching from the silent doorway* What dost thou do? *in that equally confused trembling tenor*

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oh -- hello -- ! *looks over and smiles, a sweet-feminine smile, biting her lip just a bit as she finishes off a dot* i'm making ladybugs.

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*dreamily - that hasn't changed, at any rate - and draws nearer, all gawky limbs and teenage boy* Perhaps they might swallow th'aphids if they shouldst dare invade our garden--

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*ophelia is such a cute dreamyteenageboy :D and ros is beaming at him* oh, let's hope so -- though they might have a difficult time of it, being attached to my fingers, and all. i suppose i shall just have to sit very still and wait for any aphids to come along ...

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*earnestly, a bit nearer still, and sits down (cross-legged and clumsy) next to Rose-ncrantz* And then thou shalt catch them between thy fingers, greenest of starspecks, ravenous bits of earth--

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*smiles and has never ever before seen nailplish*

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*bwee! beams at her, and shall be happy to explain in a moment -- just let her finish putting a bit of yellow in the middle of a daisy --* well hullo, milady -- !

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Hullo, Mister-- *pauses* Miss Rosencrantz?

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am i -- ? oh, that does sound a bit odd, doesn't it? *nonetheless picks up a bottle of 'envy green', considering it curiously*

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*and here's Laertes, peering in the door* Thou'rt -- thou'rt painting? *--a little disbelievingly, there are far more important things to do than painting one's nails ...like practicing fencing! But she can't really do that as a girl, it doesn't feel quite right*

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*ros's sword, on the other hand, has always been purely decorative, except it can make pretty sounds sometimes; blows lightly on a fingertip to help it dry* ladybugs. *beams beams* and this one's a daisy -- i think it's terribly clever, don't you?

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*watches her, blinking* . . . *sighs* Ay, for ladies 'tis quite clever.

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*and suddenly, an idea!* ... would you like me to do yours? *beamsbeams*

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ay, cunning; with the cunning of all women, these lady beetles -- *a moment of confusion (after all, he isn't a woman or a lady human, much less lady beetle, now and that's a source of perplexity at the moment--)*

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miss mabel did say we women can be quite devious -- *wait -- that doesn't sound right* or is it you women? i can't quite remember. perhaps she didn't say it at all.

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