#ur gonna have to chop this thread since it’s legacy ^-^ /lh

[sisturn]

wow… he didn’t even need to read her writing to understand. the ease of communication warms her heart, adding to her excitement and she’s already pretty thrilled that he’s going to teach her!

abigail follows wes’s lead, sitting down cross-legged and gently caressing the balloon given to her. she’s still as a corpse, only the occasional movement of the head indicating that she’s anything but zoned out. the child finally moves her hands, gingerly lifting up her tube balloon and gently trying to mimic the mime.

first time, she slips. second time, she’s done it too slow. third time, she manages to do it. it’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s the first twist and it’s holding. abigail looks up at wes eagerly, ready to follow after his next motions—likely with mediocrity, but with persistence.

continued from x with @sisturn

Wes gave a polite little bow when he finished his faux performance. He took such pride in his balloon work, despite how people tried to claim it was “magic”. It was just clever twists and loops! No different than sleight of hand stage magic, considering he knew the basic of that as well.

Upon seeing how excited the little ghost got, he did stand up straighter. Reading her excited pantomiming, he understood what she wanted without reading what she wrote out. The prospect excited him quite a bit! Nobody ever asked him to teach them anything except the occasional sign, so it was a real treat to be able to teach balloon tricks!

Sitting down in front of the ghost, he stretched out one of the long balloons for her as he blew it up. Once the example was tied off, he handed it over gently, gesturing for her to hold on as he blew up one for himself. He held it up, before making the first twist near the end of the balloon. He wanted to start simple with a basic balloon dog. Boring, but it taught basic twists that Abby would need to know if she wanted to make anything else.