42 ]] father

[beifongbandit]

[voice]

--Won't go back with you! Not even if I have to stay in the City a million years! [ A pause. ] No, Father, I'm not a baby anymore! I've grown up, and you have to deal with it. Listen to me!

[ There's another long pause, and then-- ] I'm not helpless! I never was!

[ There's a large jarring sound of something hitting the wall, and then silence. ]

Comments

[beifongbandit]

I don't know where he'd take me. I'm just tired of him thinking that he owns me.

[errandry]

... guess this is kinda bad for a question, but—you sure he's... there?

[beifongbandit]

He feels real. I know his footsteps. I'm not wrong.

[errandry]

All right, all right! Where're you now—can you get away from him or anything?

[beifongbandit]

I'm at home. I bet I could sneak out, though.

[errandry]

Yeah? How high up are you?

[beifongbandit]

Fourth floor. I'm not going to jump out a window if that's what you're thinking. I'm not that desperate.

[errandry]

That's my usual pick, I was just trying to think! ... You got a way clear to the door?

[beifongbandit]

I can make one.

[errandry]

[ ... ]

Say it's not tunneling.

[beifongbandit]

Hey, no one lives in the apartment below me.

[errandry]

Yeah, but once you do a giant hole in the ground it kinda stops being sneaking!

[beifongbandit]

The important part is no one can follow me.

[errandry]

Just don't bring the building down on top of you.

[beifongbandit]

I could probably fix it.

[errandry]

But could you fix you?

[beifongbandit]

Less talk, more action!

[errandry]

All right, all right, good luck breaking out!