There were children shouts outside.
For a moment, when she became aware of them, she started too much to recognize them; however, looking out the window quickly corrected that.
Just a game. Boys and a couple of girls kicking a round ball in the street, shouting at each other - encouragement, to get somebody's attention, when somebody got jostled, when there was an argument about the rules and who broke them.
And, after a half-minute of watching, she recalled why this, now. There was a world cup, and the sport - and its rules and its names and its emotions - was on people's minds who never thought about it but when it was all over the news and their neighbors' conversations.
Well, some places.
( Others had long-standing traditions, and football was the King. )Muse: Ororo Iqadi T'Challa
Fandom: X-men
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