[Don't mind her staring in silent horror for a moment.
That's always a complicated question, even without thinking she's in current mortal peril. She'd been told in her youth that human beings and borrowers were not one in the same, but Arrietty had always been fascinated by just how closely they resemble each other. Some had told her mother that humans were invented to supply goods to borrowers — she's not so sure she believes that.]
I'm — a borrower.
[She stands more firmly and clenches her fists at her sides, trying to find the courage not to turn and try to run again.]
What are you? You look like a human toy, but — bigger.
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That's always a complicated question, even without thinking she's in current mortal peril. She'd been told in her youth that human beings and borrowers were not one in the same, but Arrietty had always been fascinated by just how closely they resemble each other. Some had told her mother that humans were invented to supply goods to borrowers — she's not so sure she believes that.]
I'm — a borrower.
[She stands more firmly and clenches her fists at her sides, trying to find the courage not to turn and try to run again.]
What are you? You look like a human toy, but — bigger.