50 lines
1.7 KiB
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50 lines
1.7 KiB
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<vnscene name="ScenePrologue5" extend="scenes/SceneStandard">
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<events>
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<set-font font="font_main" size="32" />
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<text>
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<string lang="en">Ave Beaufort is staring at me and she will not look elsewhere. Ave wants to talk to me: her shoe is tapping away at the floor, rhythmic as a chorus, and she will not stop until I respond.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">No doubt she is glaring. (And seething. And <font style="italics">feeling</font>. I don't wish to know what she is feeling.)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">Her Prom Queen campaign's overflowing through the school now. She's taken it up a notch since Monday. <font style="italics">VOTE AVE BEAUFORT</font>. Stickers. Cupcakes and cookies. Her face in pastel. She needs to catch up to my votes, influence the student body, whatever.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">Ave calls it <font style="italics">making memories</font>. I know it for what it is: a goad.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I will not talk to her.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I look ahead. The bell hasn't rung yet: I have time.</string>
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</text>
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<choices key="go-to">
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<title>
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<string lang="en">I'm not staying here.</string>
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</title>
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<choice value="sports-field">
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<string lang="en">Go to the sports field.</string>
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</choice>
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<choice value="toilets">
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<string lang="en">Go to the toilets.</string>
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</choice>
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</choices>
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<if key="go-to" value="sports-field">
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<scene-change scene="vnscenes/ScenePrologueSportsField" />
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</if>
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<scene-change scene="vnscenes/ScenePrologueToilets" />
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</events>
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</vnscene> |