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Mandy Slade (smileslie) wrote in paradisolog,

Most people, Mandy thought, probably would have found it abstemiously bizarre to be listening to someone talk about not knowing how to be human. But she'd lived with someone who had sometimes been positively convinced he was an alien messiah, and she'd humored it all with smiles and nods, so hearing it from someone who wasn't high as a fucking kite--well, it was odd, but it was actually comparably easy not to crack up.

"It would seem to me," she said carefully, leaning her arms against her legs and peering at Malia, "that the simplest route would be to possibly be nice to people before they've earned it, so they know it's possible. Now, that's much easier said than done. Believe me," she laughed a bit, "I've been human my entire life, and I had to be very nice to people who definitely hadn't earned it to keep my life going, and I found it very trying more often than not." How often had she just wanted to strangle Shannon, or at least throw her out because the girl knew nothing and had taken what was the closest thing she'd had to a job as well as helping her lose her husband? But she'd smiled and welcomed the girl and called her 'luv' just because the show had to go on.

"But sometimes, faking it, or at least trying to fake it, makes actually doing it quite a lot easier. And that goes for a lot of things." What? Just because she was jaded as fuck didn't mean Mandy wasn't going to slip in a double entendre whenever she got the chance.