ほしい
wanting, wishing for
A valley with a yawn opened up in the middle of it, a gap that size. Ho ほ, she しい wants the small laptop and nothing else is going to fill it: ほしい.
For things you want. For something you want to do, the verb takes ~たい instead.
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