[Pauline just sort of watches him as he looks over her offerings. A lot of kids she's met would have snatched up their favorites (or in this case, whatever the closest alternative was) right away. She fishes out one of the cherry candies and pops it into her mouth.]
Like, you can just take whatever you want, really! At my age, I really don't eat that much candy, anyway.
[This is a lie. Pauline is a veritable trash compactor that eats whatever she's given. Still...at sixteen, she figures she's far too old to have been trick or treating, anyway. It's probably better to give her Halloween spoils to a kid, right?]
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Like, you can just take whatever you want, really! At my age, I really don't eat that much candy, anyway.
[This is a lie. Pauline is a veritable trash compactor that eats whatever she's given. Still...at sixteen, she figures she's far too old to have been trick or treating, anyway. It's probably better to give her Halloween spoils to a kid, right?]