flickering edges [festival]

Aoife had paused expectantly for the woman to say something, but instead she had turned and walked away. Aoife stood blinking for a moment, then bounced after her quite happily. Ok, they would go for a walk, that would make her feel better! And the woman glanced back at her, so Aoife beamed at her with a gap-toothed grin. She bounced along at the woman's side without even a hint of an idea that the woman was trying to avoid her, instead humming quietly to herself for a moment in time to her bounces. "My name's Aoife, what's yours?" she piped up again.