[Sophie taps you on the shoulder, sketchpad in one hand and a small object to be determined in the other. She's smiling slightly in an attempt to put the stranger at ease.]
[She feels sort of... cheerier. Being around him. It's kind of infectious. Not in a bad way, or anything. It's sort of exciting, really. It's kind of hard to not follow along and pep up, to be totally honest. She stands on her tip toes, just a bit, almost bouncing on them. And wow that sure does look like a lot of stuff.]
Probably, yeah. [Might as well ask, right?] Wait a second, why do you have a bouncy ball, anyway?
Because why not? [ He shrugs, but not in a dismissive way - more like he genuinely means, "why not?" when some people would just use that answer to avoid giving a real one. ] Helps me think sometimes. And it's a deterrent for boredom.
[She shrugs right back, in a 'i've never really thought about it' sort of way.]
What happens when you get bored?
[Doesn't everyone, is what she means to add. But she doesn't, because she's got a feeling, more of a hunch, that he's not the type to care about 'everyone'.]
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Probably, yeah. [Might as well ask, right?] Wait a second, why do you have a bouncy ball, anyway?
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What happens when you get bored?
[Doesn't everyone, is what she means to add. But she doesn't, because she's got a feeling, more of a hunch, that he's not the type to care about 'everyone'.]
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[She's pretty sure there's a lot of ways to be 'intolerable'.]
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[She means 'what's the worst you've done?' but that didn't sound quite right in her head.]