White Lie
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Thread Topic: White Lie
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Weddell frowned. "It’s not as cold as metal, and it’s just generally more stable..."
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"Almost everything was gray and metal," Sophia said. "And if they didn't have gray it was black."
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"Really?" Prisonborns were treated much worse than Weddell had initially thought them to be. "Well, we've got colors here, and most of them aren't gray or black."
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"I know," Sophia said as she looked around the room. "We're taught our basic colors only once when we're little, but most never remember them when they're older."
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"Huh." Weddell was surprised that Sophia only knew so much. He thought that Prisonborns would at least be slightly educated.
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"They didn't teach us what we'd never need to know," Sophia said. "They had a Library there, so they taught us how to read, and they also taught us math. They tried teaching history, but no one wanted to learn about the place and people that imprisoned them simply for being born, so they stopped that. And they told us they don't teach science in case we used it to escape."
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Weddell was silent for a moment. "So they taught reading and math... what about writing?" Weddell had been taught so many things about Prisonborns in his school, but it seemed that most of them weren't true.
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"What's there to write about," Sophia said.
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(By the way I think you forgot about Weddell's mom)
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(Off drinking tea or something.)
Weddell had actually never thought about this. "Well, if you can read, shouldn’t you be able to write?" Weddell asked thoughtfully. His mother was off sipping tea, maybe taking a business call. -
(Ok lol)
"I would probably be able to learn quickly," Sophia said. "Books are the only window we have to the outside world, and so I'd read a lot. But it's hard when you don't know what anything is." -
Weddell didn’t say anything for a moment. "Do you want me to teach you more? Science really is fascinating," Weddell offered. His mother said something, but he couldn’t hear it through the door that separated her office from the hallway Weddell and Sophia were standing in.
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Sophia nodded a yes and a thank you. Honestly this was the most she had ever spoken to anyone in...years. Weddell had seemed mean and rude at first, but now he was different.
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"Okay," Weddell said. He led her to the kitchen. A bowl sat unused on the counter. It was dusty now, and it had been cracked when his mother bought it, and she simply hadn't noticed, so they just never used it. "You see this vibrant color?" Weddell asked. "That's red."
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Sophia nodded. She started pointing at things with the colors she remembered. "Red, blue, white, gray, black, g - no...yel -maybe..."
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