[video] Happy Birthday, Laura!

[shoplifter]

[Laura has not really been on the network much, since the kidnappings had happened. She had been scarce in general; just because she was held captive all her life, after all, did not make it any easier to be thrust back into that terrible sort of world. But now she's back and has at least had some time to try and heal from those nasty little metaphoricalwounds, chewing on her pencil thoughtfully before lowering it and smiling a little from where she sits at a table in the community housing..]

I am twelve now... I have never had a birthday before, so I am not sure what to do other than to say so; since I have been here for a year now, I have decided that August is my birth month.

[She grins a bit, rather impish.]

And since I do not have the exact day, I guess every day in August will have to be my birthday. Gracias.

[LAURA NO—

Oh, the feed ended on that note.

Guess August is National Laura Month, so sorry.]

Comments

[stantheman]

Yeah...I know that.

[ a little too much. ]

[shoplifter]

I've learned that.
Enough that I cannot blame other children for being scared of me.

I'm different and I know how to hurt people, and it makes me scarier.

[stantheman]

I’m not scared of you.

[shoplifter]

I'm glad.
I will try not to ever scare you.

[stantheman]

I'm not actually all that easy to scare but I trust you.