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Poor baby archum

VASILE the great turtle (audio book don’t know how it’s spelled)

Hello drowned girl! have you had a grand adventure ?
I don’t think so, I had a journey but I didn’t have an adventure, not really. I didn’t save anything important or find anything that had been lost

You saved yourself - I would think that is the most important adventure of all

This is not the age of heroes but doors will open when and where they will

SAVE THE TURTLES

This was not her choice. This was her body, but it was not her decision. And yet that alone made it very heavy and difficult to carry.

Then again it was time for Carl and Pansy to talk about her like she wasn’t there

I am happy as I am

But you CANT BE

Pansy wants to fix her arm, but never bothered to even ask if that was something she wanted or even notice if she was capable of navigating the world easily without an arm. There is no attempt to speak to the child whatsoever to see what they would want or even prepare them for the doctors appointment in the first place. Important topic on consent and disclosure with children.

Nadya can’t live up to her adoptive mother’s expectations. Refers to Nadya as needing to be handled when she doesn’t understand exactly what is socially accepted of her. Her mother, Pansy, expects to be praised and treated as a saviour for “rescuing” her from the orphanage at the behest of their priest. She wants to impress her church. She did not expect the child to not be wildly appreciative.

Adults who were demanding politeness rarely wanted to discuss their reasons why

They needed her to be fluent if she was going to impress their church.

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The idea of asking Nadya what she wanted never occurred to any of them.

She had done a good thing. The right thing. She knew she had. She always did the good thing, the right thing. And if she kept doing the good and right thing, maybe one day the mother who had fled from her would realize she had made a mistake, and come back to claim her.