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Nik shrugged at AMMZ's reproachful answer, it was pretty funny but he wasn't going to laugh. But then she said something else, quite hurtful and he spoke up, "I do not have a mother. I suppose I will have to deal with using the word summon from now on."
Andi paused in the middle of pulling out a cigarette from her box, and stared at the boy. Oh bah, there, she'd gone and put her high-heeled boot put through it. Feeling irritated at herself, and irrationally, at the boy's mother for being dead. "Oh, I'm sorry," she said vaguely.
There was a pause.
"How about your father then?" she offered. "I'm sure he could buy you a thesaurus."