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Saranjit is quite small, actually.
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Panel 1: Maida closes her screen. African girl: "Really." Maida, still looking only at Saranjit: "Yes. We did. She got me excluded from that school."
Panel 2: Maida has a look of cold rage. Maida: "And then you got my family deported."
Panel 3: Saranjit looks slightly offended. She can't stop playing with her hair. Saranjit: "Uh! That-- that wasn't me, actually. ...The second time. That was all my late great grandmum's doing."
Panel 4: Saranjit, to her friends rather than Maida: "I fink she hates all fugees. You can imagine how she must have felt when my mum married one! Now she'll be bitter and dead forever."
Panel 5: Saranjit: "Maida, I only needed the scenario wiff you and Nat Fisher to earn my spot at Zhongshan."
Panel 6: Saranjit, who is a head shorter than Maida: "It weren't noffing personal! And it looks like it worked out for both of us, yeh? Here you are!"
Panel 7: Saranjit: "We've all done fings to prove our right to be here. You have too, Maida! People who follow the rules don't get to make 'istory, innit?"
Panel 2: Maida has a look of cold rage. Maida: "And then you got my family deported."
Panel 3: Saranjit looks slightly offended. She can't stop playing with her hair. Saranjit: "Uh! That-- that wasn't me, actually. ...The second time. That was all my late great grandmum's doing."
Panel 4: Saranjit, to her friends rather than Maida: "I fink she hates all fugees. You can imagine how she must have felt when my mum married one! Now she'll be bitter and dead forever."
Panel 5: Saranjit: "Maida, I only needed the scenario wiff you and Nat Fisher to earn my spot at Zhongshan."
Panel 6: Saranjit, who is a head shorter than Maida: "It weren't noffing personal! And it looks like it worked out for both of us, yeh? Here you are!"
Panel 7: Saranjit: "We've all done fings to prove our right to be here. You have too, Maida! People who follow the rules don't get to make 'istory, innit?"
There are school rules, and then there are humane social rules about how if you’re in a safe and adequate situation you don’t trample on more disadvantaged peoples’ blood and tears to maneuver for your own selfish goals… I feel like one of these things is Not Like The Other.
(you’re doing a great job and I am very curious to see what comes next, and then what comes next…)
Exactly. When Saranjit gets excluded from a school, her parents yell at her. When Maida gets excluded, she risks her family being deported.
god the feeling of hitting your growth spurt over the summer, going back to school, and suddenly all the mean girls are Down There. *chef’s kiss* perfection.