[He laughs and trots off, still talking to her as he retrieves her present.]
I could, you know. [PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER.] But I'm not gonna, because unintentional parallelism's too good a narrative setup to waste. Okay, here.
[He wrapped his gift, but underneath the obviously ironic cutesy cartoon teddy bear paper is a handmade book not unlike the one he gave Allie literal lifetimes ago. The materials are finer than what he had access to back in the Hotel Monofornia, but the basic layout is still similar: A colorful cover, all lilac and warm pinks, with a cut-out paw-print shape on the front and a bear on the back. There are cute bear face watermarks on the bottom corners of the pages, and a pocket on the inside cover where she can hold paper slips or pens.
And of course, there's a cute little doodle of her in her magical bear girl getup on the first page.]
It's big enough to tape pictures in, if you want. But it's good for writing, too. If you like that sort of thing.
[Since she's already lived out her mother's wishful story for her, it only seems fair she gets to write her own future now.]
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I could, you know. [PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER.] But I'm not gonna, because unintentional parallelism's too good a narrative setup to waste. Okay, here.
[He wrapped his gift, but underneath the obviously ironic cutesy cartoon teddy bear paper is a handmade book not unlike the one he gave Allie literal lifetimes ago. The materials are finer than what he had access to back in the Hotel Monofornia, but the basic layout is still similar: A colorful cover, all lilac and warm pinks, with a cut-out paw-print shape on the front and a bear on the back. There are cute bear face watermarks on the bottom corners of the pages, and a pocket on the inside cover where she can hold paper slips or pens.
And of course, there's a cute little doodle of her in her magical bear girl getup on the first page.]
It's big enough to tape pictures in, if you want. But it's good for writing, too. If you like that sort of thing.
[Since she's already lived out her mother's wishful story for her, it only seems fair she gets to write her own future now.]