Rose quirks a smile. He has no idea what is letting himself in for.
'I have lots,' she says. 'I like every colour. I like saffron yellow and cadmium gold and indigo blue and scarlet and permanent rose (which is my name, Permanent Rose, Mummy is an artist and she got our names off the colour chart apart from Scarlet, that is what Sarah, Saffron's best friend, wants her name to be), and if I think about colours for too long I have to get up and do something with them, and THEN,' (she pauses for breath) 'I don't sleep enough and fall asleep at school and my teacher gets angry.'
'I do not get scared,' she repeats. 'Of anything.'
Except when she was trying to find Mummy's body when she thought she was dead and it was storming and she got locked out of the house. Then she was scared. But he does not know about the hamsters, so he shall not be told.
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Date: 2007-06-17 12:43 am (UTC)'I have lots,' she says. 'I like every colour. I like saffron yellow and cadmium gold and indigo blue and scarlet and permanent rose (which is my name, Permanent Rose, Mummy is an artist and she got our names off the colour chart apart from Scarlet, that is what Sarah, Saffron's best friend, wants her name to be), and if I think about colours for too long I have to get up and do something with them, and THEN,' (she pauses for breath) 'I don't sleep enough and fall asleep at school and my teacher gets angry.'
'I do not get scared,' she repeats. 'Of anything.'
Except when she was trying to find Mummy's body when she thought she was dead and it was storming and she got locked out of the house. Then she was scared. But he does not know about the hamsters, so he shall not be told.