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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:24 pm
Donovan thought the two acted like an old married couple (Ulani and Ulrich came to mind), while Lin thought they were just two strange to be a couple, and she had seen couples do strange things.
Still, she thought the two in a way got along too well for that to happen.
"I bet he still will be," she told Ahren.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:36 pm
As Pen sighed and returned to his dinner, Lothiriel turned to Miyu and smiled warmly.
"See?" she laughed softly. "I told you he's no one to be afraid of. He's just a child himself, despite what his body looks like. He's quite a silly man."
"That's an oxymoron," Pen muttered to himself as he spooned some food into his mouth.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:39 pm
"Bet he won't be," Ahren insisted. "He keeps doing stuff to get Lothiriel mad at him, and that's just sheer stupidity."
Ahren had to think about that as he watched their guests interacting. "Well," he murmured softly, "maybe they'll just get married instead of her cutting off his manparts. Then we'd know it's just teasing and he'd be safe."
Haradhel suddenly realized what the children were talking about and gave the three of them a look.
"That's enough of that talk," she told them crisply. "Don't be so crude."
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:50 pm
Miyu nodded and giggled softy, "Very silly," she agreed.
Glad that there wasn't anything to be scared of, she went back to eating her dinner.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:52 pm
Lin blinked back at Haradhel innocently, she realized she had just done something wrong, but not quite sure of what it was. What was crude? Not talking about marriage, she was sure, she was sure it didn't fit into the meaning of the word... maybe about talking about Pen like that... that was probaby crude.
She didn't understand what manparts were anyhow, so it never occured to her that, that was crude.
"Okay," she replied going back to her dinner.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:11 pm
The rest of the meal passed with a semblance of sanity, punctuated with jokes and laughter and the odd dramatic moment from Pen. Yet suddenly, towards the end of the meal, there was something that was so real that it couldn't have been faked.
"Ah!" Pen yelled suddenly, jumping up from his seat and knocking his knees against the underside of the table. A pained expression crossed his face, and he staggered backwards, limping slightly. "What was that?" he whined, his whine not entirely false.
Lothiriel, her eyes staring, unfocused, into the room, began to giggle.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:13 pm
From underneath the table a wail started up - the wail of a startled and frightened child.
Haradhel gasped and ducked her head down to look. "Arahad!" she exclaimed, sliding to her knees on the floor and reaching for her son. "What happened?"
Adan laughed aloud. "I don't know who scared who more!" he exclaimed, "but that was funny!"
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:22 pm
"Not what..." Kara murmured taking a peek under the table, "But who... is Arahad alright Haradhel?"
She hoped the child did not hurt himself or anything of the like.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:24 pm
Pen reached down and started to massage his foot. "I think he bit me," he pouted, though it was obvious that he had been more surprised than hurt.
"Sit down," Lothiriel said breezily, reaching up and tugging on his arm. "He's just a child, he won't seriously hurt you."
"But he bit me!" Pen pouted.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:25 pm
"I think he's all right," Haradhel assured Kara, bringing her younger son out from beneath the table. "I think he was just scared."
She held Arahad close to her chest, hugging him and rocking him gently, trying to stop his crying.
"This is going to be a long visit," Elrohir sighed.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:36 pm
"He's a baby, babies put everything into their mouths," Lin replied, "Besides he couldn't have bitten hard."
Though she had to admit, there had to be tastier things than someones foot, if that was indeed what happened with the Arahad.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:38 pm
"But he's got teeth!" Pen protested. "Sharp teeth! Sharp pointy teeth that hurt! Like knives!"
"Sit down," Lothiriel said, tugging on his arm and suddenly sounding very cross. "You're making a fool of yourself. Yes, he bit you, yes, it hurt, but grow up and take it like a man."
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:43 pm
Arahad's wailing only grew louder, encouraged by the noise around him, and he stuck one fist to his drooly mouth and cried around it.
"Oh boy," Haradhel sweated suddenly. "I see the problem. He's teething again ... he's going to be like this until the new tooth comes through."
She slid one finger into the boy's mouth and moved it around gently, feeling around for the place where the new tooth would be coming in.
"Their teeth are the sharpest at this age," she explained to Kara, not realizing that Kara did have a child who had gone through the painful process - one might have thought it a safe assumption, considering that every one of her children that Haradhel had met were ones who grew in stages.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:51 pm
Why do people say that Lin wondered, because of a woman sucked it up it didn't make them a man, they were still a woman. She thought about it and filed it away in her mind for another time.
"Kind of reminds me of Jin, granted he always went for his toys, some of them have his bite marks in them," Donovan murmured.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:52 pm
"Poor thing," Kara murmured at Arahad, "He's going to be grumpy for a while."
Pen will live, which was probably why she wasn't paying any attention to him at the current moment.
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