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 Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:30 pm
((rofl lol Not Fair! I can hardly think with the visual of you wearing a red skirt in my head! lol How am I supposed to write well after that?))
"Sek! San see Trel. Sek, Locke?" Bouncing from foot to foot in the air, Tien awaited the cait's reasurance.
Locke drew his lips away from his teeth nervously. "That's a great idea, but Trel is with the baby right now. It's why she's not here with us, remember?"
"Yureshe..." Pouting, Tien kicked an invisible dust speck in disappointment.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:38 am
(( I can't think of Progolo wearing anything but black, gray and blue. razz
Yaraif: T_____T ))
"Baaaaabeee?" Yaraif repeated. "Heke saa?"
((Short. biggrin Yaraif's learning a lot today. ))
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:54 pm
Locke suddenly realized that Yaraif did not know what a baby was & shared a striken glance with Shippou. They had taken it for granted that Tien knew of these things; it was part of their daily lives. However am I going to be able to explain so much to it? The cait gulped visibly.
((had to post that much. WIll go on soon with explanation))
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:26 am
Yaraif tilted her head questioningly. What was with Locke's expression? He looked shocked. Almost thunderstruck. "Heke baaabeeee?" she repeated, trying to encourage an answer.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:57 am
Locke winced. They had taken too long. A small part of him had hoped that the kunkun's attention would have wavered. At least it's not asking how babies are made... Drawing in a deep breath Locke started to explain to Yaraif. "A baby is a small being that is simialar to a big being that will grow into a big being itself in time. In this case, the baby, who we call Theron, is a small human because his mother Trelweny & father Timex are humans. Right now he is small, and just learning to do things on his own like crawl & speak & walk. As he grows, he will be closer to the same size as his mother, Trelweny. Does that make any sense?" I sure hope so!
"Bebe teln smaller than kyunru but bigger than Locke." Tien nods her head for emphasis.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:26 pm
Yaraif stared, her head spinning. She had been lost at 'a baby is a small being...'
"Baaabeee...is...tol? But opa than Locke? Babee is tol Trel? Tol Prolo?" Yaraif struggled, trying to grasp the concept.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:45 pm
The popping of their eyes belies their inner struggles. Locke & Shippou's mouths clench together in mirth, thinking of Progolo having a baby, trying not to burst out laughing. They know that is not how Yaraif asked, but with the slower translation of the kunkunese that is how their minds went. Like familiar like cait. "Yea, the baby is smaller than Progolo. He can stand now, so he's taller than I am. I probably outweigh him though. He's still a rather little thing, but he grows quickly. Last year at this time he was closer to Shippou's size. That's what baby's do: they grow into children & then grown-ups. All the while learing the things the adults can teach them. Nearly as inquisitive as a kun too."
((I could make this so much easier by showing up myself with Theron in tow, but where would the fun be in that?))
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:57 am
English wasn't something Yaraif was particularily good at, especially since Progolo usually only spoke kunkunese to his stubborn kun-kun, and Locke's long explanation was riling her little brain. There were so many words she didn't understand! What was a father? and a Timex? Inquisitive? Now that was a big word...
Yaraif's face was growing slightly redder every moment she struggled. It looked as though she was about to burst into a frustrated tantrum. "Baaaaabeee...look like Prolo and Trel? Tol huuuuuuuman?"
(( We wouldn't want it to be TOO easy for poor Yaraif, now would we? razz ))
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:15 pm
((yeah. No reason to do that. I'll reply on monday. *bites lip* sorry))
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:15 pm
The furred ones eyes widen. Shippou motions for Locke to continue. This is kinda fun. Perhaps those bugs aren't half bad afterall.
"Um... kinda?" Knowing that wasn't going to cut it The cait sucked in his breath. "This baby looks a little like Trelweny... similar color hair & eyes..." Glancing at his familiar for help Locke saw he would be getting none. Shippou was obviously enjoying this torture. "If Progolo had a baby it would probably look like him in some ways. A baby tends to get its looks from its parents. So while by seeing one you can tell that a human baby is a human baby, their detailed looks show that they are different." Locke scrunched up his forhead in concentration. "Like you and Tien: You're both kuns, and so have the same basic look: that of being a kunkun. But you're different, each having different colors & markings."
Chuckling, Shippou whispers under his breath. "Clear as mud, oh great one. Stay on topic much?" The cait glares momentarily at his familiar. "I'd like to see you try."
Looking back at Yaraif he tries again. "Yaraif? Have you ever seen a doll?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:01 pm
Yaraif screwed up her face in thought. Doll? Hmm...Were dolls those furry/feathery noisy things Progolo wouldn't let her pull the feathers out of? No...he called those things 'griffins'...
"Ene," Yaraif said, shaking her head. her hair fluttered in her face from the force of her shaking. Easily amused, she continued to shake her head.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:00 pm
SLightly degected, Locke mumbled to himself. "Well shoot that comparison idea." Then it hit him. Or re-hit him. A recent memory of a tiny flying thing struggled to the surface of his mind. "You know of eggs, right?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:13 pm
After getting dizzy from so much enthused shaking, Yaraif looked up at Locke excitedly.
"Egg!? Sek! Ero ahm eggs!" Yaraif chirped. Then she was suddenly rattling on about every egg she'd ever owned or colored, every adventure involving eggs, how often she'd dreamed of eggs, and even an exact recount of every egg she'd cracked on Progolo and his noisy griffins.
Then she stopped, abruptly. Holding out her egg quizzically, she asked "Ihi baaaabeeeee?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:29 am
Eyeing Yaraif's egg warily Locke tries to recount all that Yaraif just said. A hard feat considering all the kunkunese he had to translate. "No... I don't think your egg is a baby, otherwise it would have cracked when it hit me. Well, at least if it was a normal egg." The thought crept up on Locke that it was not a normal egg. "Most eggs open at some point & a tiny creature is inside. That is a baby creature of whatever layed the egg. Do you follow so far?"
Aside to Locke Shippou whispers. "What are you going to do once it thinks Theron came out of an egg?" "No idea."
Tien meanwhile had forgotten nearly completely about the explanation. It knew what baby Theron was afterall. Instead it was cradling a small cone in its arms & chanting in a sing-song kind of way. "Baby, baby baby, baby, baby!"
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:40 am
"Heke laaaayed ihi egg?" Yaraif asked, alarmed. She didn't want her pretty little egg to turn into a baby creature, no wonder how wonderful it was.
Hearing Tien's chanting, she turned to look at it and the way it was cradling the egg. Curiously, she plopped down on the ground and cradled her egg, carefully noting the exact way that Tien was holding the cone. "Baaaabeeee..."
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