Coding Fantasy [Kallisti]

[Marta]

Marta frowned. His reaction hurt - not because of anything he had done. She had perhaps pushed too hard. It was something she struggled with and knew a lot. She knew how it felt to be dragged to do something you didn’t want to do. She had suggested the snowball fight because she thought it would be fun and she thought Liam would like it too. And it was a way to get him to do something with Sterling. That’s what she really wanted.

Splash was sending her messages, cognizant of the change of her emotional state even though she kept it off her face as much as possible. Okay?

Okay. she sent back. She didn’t need intervention here.

She looked at Sterling and then back to Liam. ”I’m sorry. I thought that would be fun and that you’d like it too,” she said, her voice soft and remorseful. ”Wasn’t trying to say that what you do is boring or that you’re unhappy. Just wanted to try to do something that we all like so we can hang out. Thought snowball fight would be fun. Maybe we can find something else - what is something you’d want to do. I don’t want to force you into anything you don’t want to do. Really.” her inflection went up a bit at the end, a note of panic as it hit her personal trigger. It wasn’t the same really, but it was close enough.

[Liam H]

Liam chuckled. "It's okay -- really." He knew that she had some issues, he didn't ask about them or anything but he knew all the kids except Sterling had some trauma or another in their life, it was one of the reasons Nox had them. He was here because of Sterling. She invited him, Nox let him stay and his Dad kinda sorta knew what was going on.

"We can play hide and seek or something, inside. It's too cold outside. We probably shouldn't do it here though cause we don't want to distrub the girls. Nox's house would be good, all four floors office space. All the little ones I'm sure would like it."