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"See?"
Locke's ears slumped along with his shoulders. This was much harder than he thought. Theron had already been born when Tien had come out of her gem. That and Timex's death were the reason none of them had been able to go in search of the missing kyunrus & kuns when Tien had emerged. Wait... maybe I'm still going about this all wrong. Straitening his shoulders he grinned watching the kunkuns' antics. "Yaraif, do you know where kuns come from?"

Smiling crazily, Tien encouraged her new friend. "Sek! Baby baby, baby!"

"That's right, Rasu was always around then." Hoping he was making progress the cait did not at first notice Yaraif's odd behavior; But then since they had met her had anything been really normal about the kun anyway? It was Shippou who brought the change to his attention with a nudge. "pst! Locke! Whast'd you do to it?" "I don't know..."

Tien watched its new friend curiously. What a strage way to react to the Rasu's name. Of course Trelweny spoke of the Rasu from time to time. How she had found Tien's gem was one of Tien's favorite stories. Tien's own time with the Rasu was a faded memory. Oh, it was still there, but what were memories to the kun?

"Uh-oh! You sent it bacl to it's bottle! Now you've gone & done it! Locke could not bring himself to respond. He could only watch the kun in fascination.

Now this was a turn he had not been expecting. "Well, yes... in a way. You are younger than many of the kunkuns in Kyendi. A young kun does not seem to ever change size though, where a human baby begins small before growing to a size closer to the size of adult humans." Locke was just beginning to realize how little he knew himself. It was one thing to know something; another thing all together to explain it to someone else. He had only been a cit just into adulthood when Trelweny had found Tien's gem afterall. Yaraif's singing gem had been found by Progolo in the psycho rabbit-god's hole around the same time. What place did he have to be their teacher anyway?

((rofl omg! I can just see Locke & Shippou's faces at that one! Now if I can only show them in writing!))

Locke was mid-sigh-of-relief that Yaraif seemed to be getting the idea of "babies" when the latest quiery came out of the kunkun's mouth. Instead of releasing tension, he choked on his own exhale; sputtering even as his eyes bugged out of their sockets. Sitting beside him and watching the cait torture himself with silly baby explanations, Shippou was no more expecting the question than his charge. As the little fox's jaw dropped nearly to the ground as he could not even seem to hold up his head Shippou's tail fell limp with utter horror and disbelief. When the smart-mouthed familiar found his voice again it was barely a squeaky whisper. "It's kidding, right?" Still staring dumbly at the kun Locke shook his head slowly. "I don't think so..."
Tien broke into a fit of laughter so hard it could barely keep its wings beating to stay adrift. Floating down as it lost boyancy Tien landed on Locke's head. "Shippou ene Locke ba-by! Here its giggling overwhelmed Tien again. "Shippou teln fox. Locke teln cait. Cait herei cait ba-bies, fox herei fox ba-bies. HU-man herei hu-man babies, kyunru herei kyunru ba-bies, kunkun herei kunkun ba-bies!" Nodding for emphasis Tien made her points. Of course its new friend would understand now. It was simple to Tien's mind, even if it couldn't stop giggling at the thought of SHippou being Locke's baby. Tien had not seen Shippou raising Locke, but the little fox sure did mother the cait!

"Yes!" Locke nodded his head vigorously, deciding that conclusion was close enough for now. His head hurt from all this, and hopefully this minor consecion of the kun's understanding would not be a problem for her later on. A thought crosses his mind & his forehead furrows once more. "Now where were we before we started talking about babies?"
"Erenede..." Tien spoke up sadly.

The boys gave joint sighs of relief that Yaraif had indeed finally gotten the idea that Theron was Trel's baby. They could deal with any confusion on the matter later if/when the kun met the child. Tien was already over it. "Sek! Disa tag! Who "it"?"

Shippou's eyes bugged out. "Wha? You're "it"?!?" Realizing what the proximity of a kun deciding to be "it" ment, the little fox bolted.
Tien cheered. "Sek! Yarf "it"! Nenemne!" Without missing a beat Tien fluttered into play. "Shippou disa too? Nenemne!"