"Mmm, I figured as much." Gods, they're smaller than he'd thought at first... He'd guessed, maybe, based on the rough shape and size of the curtains' displacement a few years younger than Morgan, or some of the other children. Maybe.
He's very wrong, it turns out. They're so young. Surely this isn't where the dead go?
"That's all right, then." He doesn't move, not sure what might be taken as too strange, too threatening, and he does remember he's a stranger, dealing with a strange child whose parents or caretakers were nowhere in sight. "Is there anything you want to do about it, instead?"
... Really, it's rude that his own time traveling children have denied him the experience of learning how to properly handle children of this age. Coming back to before they were conceived, really, (and now they might never be born) but... that doesn't mean he can't try his best, right?
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Date: 2018-03-01 01:42 am (UTC)He's very wrong, it turns out. They're so young. Surely this isn't where the dead go?
"That's all right, then." He doesn't move, not sure what might be taken as too strange, too threatening, and he does remember he's a stranger, dealing with a strange child whose parents or caretakers were nowhere in sight. "Is there anything you want to do about it, instead?"
... Really, it's rude that his own time traveling children have denied him the experience of learning how to properly handle children of this age. Coming back to before they were conceived, really, (
and now they might never be born) but... that doesn't mean he can't try his best, right?