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Yes, she texted back.
She held the phone in her cupped hands like it was a baby bird, waiting. Then the three dots swooped up.
I want you to pick something on TV to watch. Something short. Then tell me what happened, first by writing it down, then by using this
There was a link.
Then tell me which summary you like better Wld you feel comfortable sending them both to me when you’re done?
Yes, Katie replied. She added a heart, then tapped the link. It was to an app, which she downloaded. The app was simple. She pushed the green button and talked, then the red button when she was done. The app transcribed what she said into a document that she could zwoop to Dropbox.
An assignment! Katie loved assignments and constraints of all kinds. She wondered if Wil had guessed this or if she was just very lucky.
She scrambled to the basket where her mom kept the remotes and found the one for the flat-screen, navigated to Netflix, and scrolled around until she found an episode ofKipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
Katie let herself be completely absorbed in the story and animation, petting her lapful of cats, and then when it was over, she considered if she wanted to write or talk first. She decided to write and extricated herself from the cat pile, apologizing profusely, to get her laptop from the teeny breakfast bar. Having opened a newdocument, she did her best to explain everything that had happened. Then she opened the app, talked about the episode, and uploaded the much longer transcription document that the app made.
She sent both to Wil before she sat back down on the sofa. She chewed her thumb, waiting.
Tell me which summary you like better
Oh! Right! Katie was embarrassed she’d forgotten. She went back to the breakfast bar and pulled up both documents.
She reread them both and then realized she was scrunching up her entire face.
Can’t
Okay. Give me three words about each one
Wil was the best teacher she’d ever had.
Dry, short, boring
Feelings, tmi, long
Good!
Katie squeaked. Yay!
Do you want a script assignment?
Katie thought about it and realized that she did want a script assignment. She wantedWil’sscript assignment.
Yes xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Use the app and describe what you want in your movie. We’ll look at that doc later. Then open the long Kipo doc and set a timer for 30 min and take out things and correct things until you like it even a little or the time runs out. Then nothing else today
K, Katie wrote, with another heart.
She scrolled up in their chat thread to the list Wil had sent her last night and opened it.
After reading through it twice, slowly, she went upstairs and asked her mom for Beanie’s number. She promised she would use the landline. Back downstairs, she called Beanie with a few questions about what Katie had decided would be Wil’s first mission from the list.
Because that was what Wil had asked Katie to do. She wanted Katie tomakeher do things from her list. Katie didn’t entirely understand yet why Wil needed to work through her stuck place in this manner, but she had no objection to meeting anyone where they were at.
Excited again, she texted Wil.
FaceTime me