She Was a Lego Queen

She was a lego queen. A future engineer. Building stealthily and smartly, a quick minded girl. Six-years-old, and swore her parents would not buy her legos because she is a girl. I watched her build a house, intelligently and quickly, smartly. She is the only child I have seen out of hundreds of children, builders aged 8 and 9 even, who figured out how to add the windows which I had been told by many other children did not fit. I reached for the phone after she left, to call her mother, and ask if I might buy her legos. The phone was disconnected, not unexpected, just unsurprisingly still sad.