She frowned, or attempted to through a frankly improbably large mouthful. Was that another flush? Why? All she was talking about was Tiff's sudden shift into Information Mode. Maybe she was suffering from secondhand embarrassment.
...What was it called when you were embarrassed by someone's secondhand embarrassment? Thirdhand embarrassment? Did it matter if you were the person they were feeling secondhand embarrassment for? Was this the beginning of an improbable embarrassment loop?
...She really needed to just eat, she was starting to get ridiculous.
"...so what I'm getting is that I should really just start talking again, and not focus on what I'm saying?" She attempted to clarify, her frown turning thoughtful. She could do that, she was very good at doing that. She was an expert at turning her brain off by this point. She could go in, take a breath, and just sink back into her brain and let her mouth run. Yes. That was an excellent plan.
Her smile returned somewhat, her confidence bolstered by Bridget's reassurance that she had, in fact, done something right earlier. She wasn't really sure what the sudden shift into believing her was. Maybe it was her presence, maybe it was the fact that she wasn't close to the King anymore. Maybe it was the fact that she had just inhaled a gyro (yes that was the word, she knew that she knew it somewhere) the size of her head in about three minutes.
Yeah, it was probably the gyro.
"Okay!" She beamed at her, perking right back up even as she wiped her face with the handkerchief.The most important person she'd ever gotten to listen to her before was Forrest, and she'd had plenty of practice telling him everything. Maybe if she just pretended she was talking to him instead of the King, she'd have an easier time not panicking. "Wait, are those are things people have been passionate at him about? That... he didn't think people could be passionate about?" Passionate was starting to not sound like a word. "Aren't those all things that people here should care about?" Why wouldn't they? Literally all of those things Bridget had listed were cool, and things she cared very much about, and were also conveniently things everyone should care about!
"Nope! I'm good, thank you!" She paused, then offered her a polite little bow. It seemed like the right thing to do for someone who just fed you. "I also think I'm ready to go now. I really want to see the gardens before the King gets there. Maybe I'll be able to get a couple more ideas for projects while I'm there, too!" If she could get more ideas while talking, that was just something else she could ramble at the King about. Considering what Bridget said, he would probably enjoy that.
...What was it called when you were embarrassed by someone's secondhand embarrassment? Thirdhand embarrassment? Did it matter if you were the person they were feeling secondhand embarrassment for? Was this the beginning of an improbable embarrassment loop?
...She really needed to just eat, she was starting to get ridiculous.
"...so what I'm getting is that I should really just start talking again, and not focus on what I'm saying?" She attempted to clarify, her frown turning thoughtful. She could do that, she was very good at doing that. She was an expert at turning her brain off by this point. She could go in, take a breath, and just sink back into her brain and let her mouth run. Yes. That was an excellent plan.
Her smile returned somewhat, her confidence bolstered by Bridget's reassurance that she had, in fact, done something right earlier. She wasn't really sure what the sudden shift into believing her was. Maybe it was her presence, maybe it was the fact that she wasn't close to the King anymore. Maybe it was the fact that she had just inhaled a gyro (yes that was the word, she knew that she knew it somewhere) the size of her head in about three minutes.
Yeah, it was probably the gyro.
"Okay!" She beamed at her, perking right back up even as she wiped her face with the handkerchief.The most important person she'd ever gotten to listen to her before was Forrest, and she'd had plenty of practice telling him everything. Maybe if she just pretended she was talking to him instead of the King, she'd have an easier time not panicking. "Wait, are those are things people have been passionate at him about? That... he didn't think people could be passionate about?" Passionate was starting to not sound like a word. "Aren't those all things that people here should care about?" Why wouldn't they? Literally all of those things Bridget had listed were cool, and things she cared very much about, and were also conveniently things everyone should care about!
"Nope! I'm good, thank you!" She paused, then offered her a polite little bow. It seemed like the right thing to do for someone who just fed you. "I also think I'm ready to go now. I really want to see the gardens before the King gets there. Maybe I'll be able to get a couple more ideas for projects while I'm there, too!" If she could get more ideas while talking, that was just something else she could ramble at the King about. Considering what Bridget said, he would probably enjoy that.
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