An Inning

[Kiwi is too lazy to get up and open the door, so crawls to let Matt in to their side of the corridor. Instead of letting him help her up, she scoots on her butt back to the group.]
Matt: You look like a dog with worms.
[Lora corrects them as a proper zoology major and informs us that dogs do that because their anal glands are blocked, not because they have worms.]
[Conversation progresses to having worms.]
Kiwi: I had them on Halloween once and had to take a pill and wasn't allowed to eat chocolate. So I said to my Mum, "It isn't fair! I have worms in my bum AND I can't eat chocolate ON HALLOWEEN!"
[Matt eventually mentions it's most commonly spread by eating ill-prepared meat.]
Kiwi: AND I was a vegetarian!

Juliette: Kiwi, have you heard my ladybird story?
Kiwi: Noooo!
Juliette: Well once, in primary school, all these kids were standing around in a circle and I didn't know why. So I marched over into the center of the circle and demanded they tell me what was going on. And they told me that I was standing on a ladybird...giving birth. So I was standing on about 50,000 ladybirds or something. And you know kids then, they think ladybirds are sooo cute, like, "Oh, let's keep it for a pet!"
Lora: And you stood on 50,000 of them.
Matt: That's when the bullying started.

[Kiwi reclines on her stomach in the corridor.]
[Matt pokes in her sides.]
[Kiwi flails about shrieking and making strange noises.]
Later:
Juliette: You know what you remind me of? [Insert small tangent about the fact that it's from C.S. Lewis here.] You remind me of the little people who had one foot and bounced everywhere. [Demonstrates.]
[Sarah begins bouncing in the background.]
Kiwi: But I haz two legs! [Spreads them in the air.]
Juliette: But they were short! And had one leg! And bounced! And were invisible!
Kiwi: Ooooer, invisible! [Cackles madly.]



A long while ago at tea:

Sarah: What, Harry hasn't been read to? Nothing?
Kiwi: Travesty! We must remedy this!
[They discuss Kiwi's being read Harry Potter in childhood, and other things.]
Sarah: But we couldn't read him Harry Potter because that has witchcraft.
Kiwi: [Thinks Jesus Camp.] Yes, that's blasphemous.
[Moments later they both break out into the Harry Potter theme song together, bobbing all around.]
Juliette: You two remind me of wood pigeons!


Living Cell:

Sarah: I'm bored. [Starts knots and crosses on Kiwi's paper.]
Kiwi: [Plays.] [Thinks, 'Oh no, and it starts...]
[More than an hour later, Kiwi's notes are filled with doodles of sandwiches, dead sheep, cockroaches in yogurt, and many other unexplainable things. Like cancer.]