Chapter 2: Speaking Sandstone
I switched around the words "whispering rock" and got "speaking sandstone." It's fun.
She was finally at Whispering Rock. She went to the main cabin. She saw a colorful person behind her, and saw that it was Milla Vodello, the camp's hippie counselor. "Hi."
"Hello, darling. I've never seen you before. Are you new here?"
"Yeah. I ran away a couple days ago, and I came here."
"Oh. Most people just have parents who drop them off here."
"I wish my mom had."
"Well, uh, I'll have to call your school, so that you can catch up on your work. Do you, uh, do you want to talk about it, darling?"
"No."
"Oh. Okay. Let's eat, darling." They had dinner. Zig asked Milla if it was likely that she would ever talk to Sasha Nein. Milla said it was doubtful, but she'd bring up the subject. Then Milla asked Zig for the name of her school and the city it was in. Then Zig got settled in a cabin. She was tired.
She had just turned on her side and pulled the covers up over her shoulder when she heard another little girl ask, "Why are you here?"
She turned over. Wasn't she allowed to get some sleep? "I ran away. Why are you here?"
"My dad says that, if I'm exposed to the psitanium for long enough, my mental capacity for some of my different skills might go up. Why'd you run away?"
"I was mad at my mom. She doesn't like psychics, and she's homophobic, and she didn't like that I was turning into a Buddhist, and I'm blind. She just couldn't take it. I kept hoping she'd get over it. Then she didn't, so I got mad at her and ran away. I've been planning this for months."
"Oh. What's your name?"
"Zig. What's yours?"
"Lili Zanotto. Yeah, I know, my dad's the head of the Psychonauts. Big deal. I, at least, am a real person. You want me to show you around tomorrow?"
"It could kill time."
Yeah, she's emo. And she's friends with Lili. I didn't put it down, but she took off her eye shadow at night.