Dictionary

Now incorporated into "Adventures in Babysitting"
Date/Timing: Jan 2019
Setting: Marshal's offices, The Shed; Vaucluse, NSW, Australia
Note: This ficlet has been made redundant by "Adventures in Babysitting"
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Fei Yen runs up to Xiong, cursing [happily.
Jackson cringes.]
Xiong smiles, scoops her up. "Did you pick that up [from] your new sitters?"
"Yup!" beams Fei Yen in lovely English.
"And did you pick up why it's inappropriate?"
Fei Yen shakes her head, twists around, blinks at them.
"Gentlemen," says Xiong. "Care to explain to my daughter why that language isn't appropriate for a child?"
"It's, uh," says Jackson, "very—"
"Rude!" stammers Logan.
"And children should be polite—"
"Especially to their parents."
"Why wude?" asks Fei Yen.
"Because ...."
"They're not very nice words."
"Why's they not nice?"
"Umm," says Logan.
"The dictionary!" shouts Jackson.
"The dictionary says so!" adds Logan.
"So ye shouldn't say them."
Fei Yen's brow furrows. "Tipets do."
"We're dumb," says Logan.
A deeper furrow. "Tipets."
[Logan looks to Jackson.
Jackson swallows, hunches his shoulders.
Logan shrugs. "We're dumb, not-nice Tipets and you don't wanna be like us."
Jackson nods fervently.]
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