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 Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:30 am
Elnara clapped along with everyone else, but her eyes were on Lore rather than the magician. She was smiling warmly at him, and she leaned close to him and placed a short, light kiss on his cheek.
"Thank you," she murmured gratefully as the magician continued his show. She lowered her hands, then added quietly, "What do you think Lin and the others aren't telling us?"
There was an air of secrecy about her last visit to the Borderlands, and that worried Elnara - though she didn't want to confront Lin about it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:54 pm
Lore sighed and thought about it, he didn't know families that well but he had heard enough of them and he would like to think he had been around the various of Winters to know enough.
"I don't know... it can't be serious...." he mused, "But... I don't think it's a good thing, whatever it is... so the only thing I can think of is that they're being nice and just not saying."
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:05 pm
Elnara nodded and turned her attention back to the magician. "We'll see next weekend," she murmured with a faint smile. "We'll bring something from here for them. But perhaps we should leave it at that for tonight, and simply enjoy ourselves. Yes?"
It had been a very long time since they had done something like this, and she didn't want it to be ruined. Worrying would change nothing, and she wouldn't let it ruin their night.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:11 pm
"Agreed," Lore murmured with a grin.
Just in time to see the man cough off what seemed like hair balls but turned out to be birds that flew away. It seemed like he was as much of a comdemian as a magician.
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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:59 am
Elnara laughed as she watched the rest of the show with Lore. If only the children could be there with them - but perhaps next year, she mused. They would just love to be here, see everything that was going on.
But of course there were other things to see and to do, and once the act was finished, Elnara turned to Lore and smiled. "What shall we do next?" she asked him, her eyes bright.
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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:06 pm
That was a good question, Lore looked thoughtful as he looked back on their choices.
"Well we could look at the booths selling trinkets, but I guess you might want to save that till we are ready to go.. so unless you're hungry or want to have tea we could play a few games," Lore offered.
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:24 am
Elnara rose to her feet and held out hand out to Lore to help him up as well. "Perhaps a snack," she suggested, "and then some games?"
There was no rush after all, they had the whole night.
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:16 am
Lore pointed off into the other direction where it looked like there was another garden waiting.
"There's a small tea house over there that sells tea and snacks," he explained, "Well actually specifically they sell wagashi."
It was a traditional Japanese tea house, the East was where the kitsunes came from after all. He tugged her hand lightly.
"And it is close to the games."
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:24 am
Elnara nodded and headed after Lore, hurrying to walk by his side rather than behind him.
"And what is wagashi again?" she asked sheepishly. "All these names just sound so similar ... I still can't keep most things straight."
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:28 am
Lore couldn't blame her, and what was considered wagashi and what wasn't was confusing enough. Dango, wagashi, and all those were pretty much made of the same thing, rice and filling. He grinned at her remembering the first time he introduced her to such a snack.
"Think sweets shaped like flowers," he chuckled, "Well, not really, they are sweets but not as sweet as we would think of them with lots of sugar or anything of the sort. They're made of rice, colouring and whatever filling most of the time red bean. They're shaped to be pretty and are small, often nature motifs."
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:25 am
Elnara snapped her fingers, remembering now what they were.
"You bought me a box of those one time," she smiled warmly at him. "The children were so disappointed when they couldn't have any of them. I'm afraid I was feeling somewhat selfish that day."
That had been the day Serenity had been traumatized at school by the Naga she liked to draw ...
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:46 am
Lore chuckled at that, "It's alright to feel like that every once in a while."
He knew the feeling after all, and he had given them to her, so he couldn't fault Elnara for that. Though if he recalled the children were quite young when he had done that.
"Maybe we can bring some with us this time."
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:26 pm
"I think we'd better," Elnara agreed with a soft laugh. "If we don't we may have a mutiny on our hands. And Storm was particularly disappointed last time when I didn't let him have any ... perhaps this will help make him feel a bit better."
She would do anything to get him back to the boy he used to be.
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:45 pm
He had to laugh, there was a good point, besides he was sure they would also want to hear about it as well.
"Fortunately it'll be easy to do that," Lore replied happily.
He looked up ahead and as expected there was a small Asian style house surrounded by water and a bridge that connected it to the rest of the fair grounds. He wondered what the place had been before.
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:15 pm
Elnara was once again grateful to Kara for spelling her bag and making it bottomless. It had been useful so many different times ... she couldn't imagine life without it anymore.
"Pretty," she commented as they approached the house. "It almost reminds me of home. The waterways."
She wondered if there might be something Jair could enjoy in the water that they could pick up for him here. His needs were so different from the rest of his siblings ...
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