[ A small snort. Almost, but not quite, a laugh. She can almost picture what his expression must be. That duck of his head, even as the defense is nothing but paper-thin. Something she'd seen so many times during their years squirreled away in bedrooms and empty attics and rooftops. ]
You read People now?
[ Likely better than pointing out none of those awards were for Star Trek or that she'd spent a good deal of time looking at the woman's life for reasons that hadn't made themselves clear until she suddenly wasn't inside the walls of The Academy.
In The Academy, she'd been one among seven, six really, and always among the top three. Here, she was a black woman in Hollywood, one of so few who made it even this little way she had, and it meant so many things her childhood never once prepared her for. ]
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You read People now?
[ Likely better than pointing out none of those awards were for Star Trek or that she'd spent a good deal of time looking at the woman's life for reasons that hadn't made themselves clear until she suddenly wasn't inside the walls of The Academy.
In The Academy, she'd been one among seven, six really, and always among the top three. Here, she was a black woman in Hollywood, one of so few who made it even this little way she had, and it meant so many things her childhood never once prepared her for. ]