River remembers her father reading to her from a big picture book of alien lifeforms (Barlowe's anyone?). It was a very valuable book and he kept it on a high shelf in his study. She remembers wanting to read from it when he wasn't around, so she pushed a chair over to the shelves, and then balanced one of the little side tables on top of the chair, and then she started climbing. She had one foot on the high back of the chair and one foot on the bookshelves, her fingers stretched way out over her head, almost got it, almost, almost...
She had that cast on her arm for six weeks. (Years later, her father told her in a letter that she would have been just fine had her mum not come in and startled her at the wrong moment. It's all about the timing.)
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Wow.
GOOD QUESTION.
~ponders~
I'm gonna have to come back to this one.
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She had that cast on her arm for six weeks. (Years later, her father told her in a letter that she would have been just fine had her mum not come in and startled her at the wrong moment. It's all about the timing.)