January By the Numbers Thirteen: Poise (fiction Piece)

January by the numbers continues (now two days off~)!
From kelkyag's prompt "Poise;" a ficlet.

This one turned out a little weird~~

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It means weight.

Well, it doesn't mean weight, but it's all about weight.

Poise. When I was little, I thought "being poised to" was the same as "being poisoned" and I thought if someone was poised to, say, leap, it was because someone had poisoned their mind.

(Speaking of leaps, I made quite a few strange ones when I was young)

Turns out a poison is a potion, and not necessarily a weighty one.
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