[ river doesn't have the best social skills with anyone, let alone children - another reason she appreciates wilhelm's friendship and the easy way he goes along with her weirder behaviors. as it is, she just follows behind him silently, scanning the area and listening to the silence as he tries and fails to make conversation with any of them.
there are other children in the schoolyard, most of them behaving as one might expect of kids recently released from classes for the day: shouting and running around, racing home or lingering around to hang out with their friends. it makes these ones stand out even more, along with a few other children river notices that are alone, oddly intense as they play with their own dolls.
she turns to catch wilhelm's perplexed expression and responds with a very sincere shrug. what the fuck, indeed. ]
They can hear but they're not listening. And they're... seeing, without looking.
[ no, that doesn't seem quite right. she frowns and steps closer to the children, trying to get a better look at the doll on the ground in the center of their circle. ]
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there are other children in the schoolyard, most of them behaving as one might expect of kids recently released from classes for the day: shouting and running around, racing home or lingering around to hang out with their friends. it makes these ones stand out even more, along with a few other children river notices that are alone, oddly intense as they play with their own dolls.
she turns to catch wilhelm's perplexed expression and responds with a very sincere shrug. what the fuck, indeed. ]
They can hear but they're not listening. And they're... seeing, without looking.
[ no, that doesn't seem quite right. she frowns and steps closer to the children, trying to get a better look at the doll on the ground in the center of their circle. ]
What do you see?