How It All Goes Down
Pressia (Gifts)
- It's Pressia's sixteenth birthday. Nothing to celebrate here, folks: a sixteenth birthday is a bad thing in this world.
- She wakes up with Bradwell's voice in her head, asking her if she's sixteen yet.
- On the table are two presents; she didn't want presents, but her grandfather insisted he give her a special present. The other present is from someone else.
- And you guessed it— it's from Bradwell.
- The grandfather's present is a pair of clogs. Pressia doesn't seem to like them very much, but still puts them on. What a polite granddaughter.
- While she's "clomping around," her grandfather tells her about how she had a pony at her second birthday party.
- She then opens Bradwell's present: the clipping of paper from the footlocker with the people wearing 3-D glasses. She thinks it's some kind of cruel joke.
- Then she looks at the toys she makes, and for the first time she sees them as childish.