[ dutch doesn't like children. she doesn't dislike them, either, or at least she doesn't think that she does. instead, there's just a big question mark where for some people, affection or an instinct to protect might go. she's more likely to ignore a child or to treat it like a smaller adult than anything else, and she' be happy enough to ignore laura now, except —
except the way the kid is studying the fight tugs at some memory inside dutch. there's something about it, curious and evaluative rather than wowed or scared, that makes dutch pause after the match is done, lingering for a moment. ]
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except the way the kid is studying the fight tugs at some memory inside dutch. there's something about it, curious and evaluative rather than wowed or scared, that makes dutch pause after the match is done, lingering for a moment. ]
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