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Ameh
The small boy's eyes widened at the question and he looked at the hedgehog in his hands. He had read up a bit on how to take care of a hedgehog, but he'd never really looked into anything about their being poisonous. Now he was suspicious. "I don't think so... he's slept on my face sometimes and I'm still alive and stuff."
He wasn't going to give her the option. The boy very gently thrust the sniffling hedgehog into her hands, and promptly stuck his own into his pockets to dig around for treats. It was then that his attention was diverted to the tall man again, and Jay squinted up at him again, nose scrunching up.
"Dad said that only kids can go on the train, but... I keep finding old people..."
He looked at the girl as if she would understand what he was taking about, hands continuing to fish in his jacket's pockets until he finally found a small bag of hedgehog treats that were half-smooshed. Success. Sniffler would not starve.
Julia considered this, and right about the time she concluded that the hedgehog was probably non-poisonous she looked down to discover it sitting in her hands. Well. Now she knew what her father meant when he said theorizing was only good to a point before physical testing was required. She watched the hedgehog snuffling at her palm, and smiled a little when it started licking at the creases it found there.
Eventually she noticed the boy looking at her, and looked back. Then looked at the man standing in front of them. Then looked back at the boy and suggested, "He's probably the conductor."
This was followed by explaining to the man, "I would give you my ticket but I'm currently holding a hedgehog."