[She's shocked into silence for a moment; a flush spreads across her cheeks, as though she's embarrassed, even though she has no reason to be embarrassed! All she wanted to know was whether someone was going to be destroying this world while she was still in it! That's a perfectly reasonable thing to want to know!]
No.
[It's said in a sullen mutter--she's looking kind of mutinous, in a low-level, kid-just-told-she-was-grounded sort of way. But that seems to be all she's interested in saying, and she will, in fact, let him buy the pastries in peace, if that's what he wants.]
no subject
No.
[It's said in a sullen mutter--she's looking kind of mutinous, in a low-level, kid-just-told-she-was-grounded sort of way. But that seems to be all she's interested in saying, and she will, in fact, let him buy the pastries in peace, if that's what he wants.]