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[fourteen]

I will pretty this up later. But!

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[Action, August 22nd or something]

[fourteen]

[ .... feeling judged somehow .... ] W-What?

[Action, August 22nd or something]

[godbent]

T-thousands... [She shakes her head] ...When I was ta little girl, I went to a baseball game.

[Here she leans back a bit, onto the counter of the game she was playing. the droid behind it, mercifully, doesn't push her off] Do you know what baseball is? Anyway, it's a sport - the stadium was really full of people watching the game. There were so many people there, I felt like a little ant in the crowd. I thought, at the time, that must have been all of Japan in there.

[Action, August 22nd or something]

[fourteen]

[ She doesn't get a chance to answer Haruhi's question -- she has no idea what baseball is, actually -- but she listens in silence to the story. ]

... wow ... how many people do you think it was?

[Action, August 22nd or something]

[godbent]

I know how many - I asked my dad, actually. There were about twenty-five thousand people in the stadium that day.

[Man it's so weird to think that not three- well a few months? Years? Luceti is weird. Back home, this story was so painful and hard to tell. Now, how many times has she rattled it off? And it's easier each time, even if the impact is still there.]

Twenty-five thousand people... But, you know, we'd been learning about populations in school. There's about 128 million people in Japan. So that stadium I thought was so huge, that was really less than 1% of the people in my own country. A tiny drop in the barrel.

[She plows through this - honestly, she's telling her story, she's only pausing here to give Xion some chance to respond]

[Action, August 22nd or something]

[fourteen]

[ ... twenty-five ... thousand? That is way, way more people than Xion can even conceive of. Much less 128 million. Stunned into silence, she says nothing, only nodding for Haruhi to go on. ]

[Action, August 22nd or something]

[godbent]

And then 128 million... well. Earth has seven billion people on it. It's a lot, right?

[Action, August 22nd or something]

[fourteen]

[ faintly ]

More than I can imagine.