"Er..." Selina doesn't look very... disswayed by Victoria's answer.
Dissuaded?
"Mostly, I guess that fluff cushioned me, it has a use after all."
((I was replying to semile))
...Do you mean Selina?
"The reason I am so tired was I spent last night giving someone extensive physical modifications, including alterations to their nervous system."
Which reminds me, can we figure out how that went? Pretty please?
How do you mean?
I mean, I hadn't gotten to that point and forgot to remove that comment when I did.
You know what's more annoying than thinking of a great response to something a couple minutes after posting? Not being able to add it for hours.
On that note...how did Fortuna (?) pick up Angel? I'm a pretty big guy, and my not-quite-four-year-old cousin is pretty hard to pick up. Add a year and change (to both sides--Angel's birthday wasn't two days before Orientation Day) to her and subtract some strength from me, and I'm not sure if I could pick her up. I certainly wouldn't want to.
Your family might want to feed your cousin a bit less, because I am not at all a big guy and I can pick up and carry around my 3 and 5 year old cousins fairly easily.
Hell, with a bit of effort I can lift both at once, leading to the HUG MONSTER, CAPABLE OF GIVING SEVERAL HUGS AT ONCE!
I blame miscommunication. I wasn't saying I couldn't pick her up, I'm saying it wasn't comfortable. I'd imagine it would be even less so for a girl* picking up an older child, and hence wonder why Angel had to be asked to be put down.
*Call me sexist, but women have lower upper body strength than men.