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Cassirin He smiled at her, which made Dot feel much less like a failure as a human being, and she promptly skipped across the distance to join Toby. That was his name really. The Boy was called Toby, and it was better to call him as such in her head so she didn't do something embarrassing to his face. "Fairy sneezes are cute. And kitten sneezes. Did you eat a fairy?" She clacked her teeth together and tried to peer into his mouth before stepping back again and grinning. Just kidding.
He was looking a little goofy at the moment, and she wondered if he was thinking about Sophie. What was it like for someone to go goofy over you? Was it nice, or was it stressful? Seemed like it might be stressful, like you'd always be trying to get them to pay attention to real you and not to the imagination you. "I'm doing well, thank you, Toby. I'm a little taller, and my hair is longer, and I have six new freckles on my left side and four on my right and you are very cute, but you already know that. So I think those things mean I'm growing up, don't you?" She rocked on her heels and dimpled again. "How was your summer?"
The idea of EATING a FAIRY might usually have struck a chord of horror in Toby's very souuuuuul, but he was luckily quick enough on the uptake to realise that Dot wasn't being serious. Not that he'd really think anyone saying that would be doing so in all seriousness............. except maybe Zahra.
"Nah, I'm on a strictly 'no fairy' diet," he said, starting off quite serious, but unable to keep from breaking into that big ol' grin of his. Also, it was difficult to keep that 'srs biznizz' air about you when you were bouncing on the balls of your feet. Which Toby was, of course, doing right now.
Toby nodded along as Dot basically updated him on THINGS, and he absolutely did not miss the part when she called him cute. Toby wasn't one to blush (it had happened perhaps three or four times in his LIFE), but he certainly met that statement with a sheepish sort of grin.
"I'm-" he started, fully intending to assure Dot that he didn't think he was cute, but decided to just... take it. Take the compliment with a big smile, sure. He could be cute sometimes, apparently, in the 'puppy cute' kind of way, that is. So he changed tack.
"I think that absolutely means you're growing up," Toby replied, and this time he really was being serious. Even with the bouncing. Srs bouncing.
"My summer was good. Pretty eventful. My dad covered me in glitter and stuck me to the ceiling at one point; it was super fun. I got a puppy, too." Puppies were awesome.