( She's laughing again, shrugging her shoulders at his question. )

At the moment? Not so seriously at all.

( She moves away, glancing around, back toward a group of people working as a fractured whole. )

But way more seriously overall than I want people to know, so I guess I told a little lie. ( She tells so many of them, little, big, in-between. ) People only take me as seriously as I seem to take myself.

( She smiles, eyes half closed. )

Though it does help being a little bit older than fourteen.

( Sixteen is so much older than fourteen. )