Two Conversations
This afternoon:

Paidhi Girl: So I'm reading this story in The Starry Rift and it's really good.

Me: So who's it by?

Paidhi Girl: I don't know.

Me: What's it called?

Paidhi Girl: I forget.

Me: What...is your favorite color? No. I mean, what's it about?

Paidhi Girl: It's about...this guy? And some people bring him somewhere? And now they're talking to him.

(Paidhi Girl is really enjoying The Starry Rift. It's one of the few books I've given her that she started reading right away and hasn't abandoned. Usually there's some resistance when I suggest a book, or give it to her. I assume the stories are good, but I also suspect that it had something to do with it not looking much like a kids' book, something she commented on very soon after I gave it to her. "This looks like a book you would read," she said to me. Well, you know, it pretty much is.)

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This evening:

Paidhi Girl: Look at Paidhi Boy's Scratch project!

Me, observing a large human-shaped thing being bombarded by noisy red lines: What does it do?

Paidhi Boy: You shoot this giant.

Me: I can see that. What does it do?

Paidhi Boy: The giant is evil, and you shoot him. With lasers.

Me: What do the lasers do to the giant?

Paidhi Boy: Oh, nothing.