Vital Vocab, week five! I like Isaac. Eliza needs some serious character development, though. (Sorry if she's drastically different in the next Eliza update than she was in the last one.)
Prompt: --
Vocab Words (underlined): bias (n), beguile, benign, behemoth (n), bane (n)
Grammer Focus: their/they're/there, use a colon to introduce a list
Isaac Bade-
Eventually, Aunt Gaile woke up from the thunder, realized what time it was, and brought me inside to beguile me with "I'm sorry" hot chocolate and elephantine cookies. As I sat at the kitchen counter, she started to lecture me in her own benign way about things; how I should wear a better coat and better shoes; how I should and carry a small umbrella when there's not even rain; how I should try to find ways to always be prepared. (One stupid thunderstorm and I was suddenly a Boy Scout.) I stared into my hot chocolate, nodding at regular intervals, mostly just to lead her through the silences.
"And out there drawing, of all things," she continued. "Always drawing. What's even in that notebook of yours?" She reached for it, but I held it firmly to the counter. "And why won't you ever let me see it?"
Because you have a bias against black pen? I shook still-wet hair out of my eyes and munched on a cookie. My notebook? She wouldn't like what was in there. Anything vaguely dark seemed to be the bane of her existence. Well, that and behemoth food companies. ("They're dishonest," she said. "Their food's hardly even real!") I just knew if she looked at my notebook, it would fall open to exactly the wrong page. Something in there would send her concern levels through the roof.
I didn't want her to be through-the-roof concerned for me. Through-the-roof concern was my worst-case scenario.
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