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[tinystitches]

[It's not a very long post, or even a very interesting one. The boy's voice is not one that people here are probably going to be familiar with, and his tone is unconcerned, verging on bored.]

Did you notice that the sun's wrong?

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[notsoholyspirit]

W--

[OH COME ON.]

You know what I meant! And give me that!

[tinystitches]

Why do you want it?

[notsoholyspirit]

So you don't have it.

[tinystitches]

I have more.

[notsoholyspirit]

Then give me all of them!

[Huff.]

[tinystitches]

No.

I don't have a good enough deadpan icon for this

[notsoholyspirit]

[His blood pressure was probably fine until Stein showed up. Now? Well...]

Oh for the love of...

[He sighs.]

Just put it away then. I'd rather Maka not have to listen to how crazy you are.

[tinystitches]

She'll find out eventually.

[notsoholyspirit]

Yeah but not right now!

[This is it. This is the end. No wonder he's so dramatic.]

[tinystitches]

Why? [Endless questions. That's what Stein being this age is all about.]

[notsoholyspirit]

I can't deal with your nonsense right now. I'm making dinner.

[Yes he is absolutely storming back over to the kitchen like the adult he is. Don't judge.]

[tinystitches]

I want ramen.

[soundmind]

...[What the fuck was all THAT.]

...[No really, what WAS it.]

...I already knew you were crazy, you tried to dissect me when I first met you.

[tinystitches]

[That was your professor. But now that Spirit's distracted with dinner, Stein has Maka all to himself.]

Why didn't I?

[He's assuming Spirit stopped him. Spirit is Maka's father, apparently.]

[soundmind]

My friend stopped you.

...Also you were pranking us, you weren't actually going to do it.

[She thinks, anyway.]

[tinystitches]

I was probably serious. [He's usually serious.]

[soundmind]

But you said you were kidding and just testing us.

[She thinks he was just kidding anyway.]

The one I know makes off-color jokes like that a lot. And he's taller than you. So I think you might have changed over the years.

[JUST SOMEWHAT.]

[tinystitches]

How much taller? [Clearly, this is the most important thing. Stein's the shortest boy his age in his class.]

[soundmind]

Ummm...almost as tall as Lord Death, I think. Six and a half feet?

[Maka do you need to be telling the tiny terror that he's going to be a giant monster, really.]

[tinystitches]

[Stein's eyes go very wide. That's almost two feet taller than he is right now.]

Are you sure?

[soundmind]

Of course I'm sure, I barely even reach the adult you's upper torso. You're taller than Papa too when you get older.

[tinystitches]

Oh. [Sorry, Maka, he's now considering what it must be like to be that much taller.]

[soundmind]

...But you're not there yet.

[Oh come on, Maka, he was happy for a little bit.]

[tinystitches]

I know that. [That's something he's known all his life.]

I've always been short.