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[missleadingquestions]

[Maya's hands go up as if to show she's not touching anything, forcing a smile that absolutely doesn't show how much she definitely doesn't want to touch things just because he's told her not to.

Who is the child here]

Gotcha!

Oh, by the way.

[distracting herself from that by doing what she came here to do, Maya produces one of those Steel Samurai manga she was so excited about.]

Ta-dah! I brought the first few books in the series, just in case you're a quick reader.

[alchemistake]

[The Goblin reaches out to gently take one of the manga in hand, delicate so as not to wrinkle the pages or bend the cover. It's quite unlike anything he's seen before as far as books go...it's not like a regular hardback, or even a flyer. And of course he doesn't know yet you're supposed to read it backwards, but he'll get there eventually.]

Woah. This...has a lot of pictures in it, doesn't it?

[He comments as he flips to a random page, realizing straight away that the actual words are minimal compared to the drawings inside.]

[missleadingquestions]

[Exuberant about the possibility of spreading the comic bug even further, Maya nods, hair baubles bouncing as she does.]

The whole thing's pictures! With speech bubbles. The pictures tell the story instead. See?

[Maya points on the page he's opened to.]

That big guy there? He's the Steel Samurai— kind of like a robot Knight— and the guy he's cutting through is an agent of the Evil Magistrate.