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 Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:35 pm
"Please don't do that," Lillian said, her exasperation cutting through her accent as she hoisted up her skirted and and trekked across the mud of the riverside.
"Feng?" She asked, glancing around warily, peeling her gaze up off her ruined shoes to realize she'd lost the blur of red hair that was pouncing fish in the shallows.
"Gah! Jin Feng! Where'd you go?!" She shouted, worried for a brief moment before he zoomed past his adoptive mother and took a flying leap back into the river, splashing the Englishwoman with water and mud.
She just froze, on the brink of fuming before abandoning the prospect of dragging the lotus child out of the water and rescuing fish, and focused more on stomping back to the grass and wiping her cheek off with a hanker chief and letting her hair down to remove flecks of mud.
"That's really not the way to catch fish," She huffed, watching him flail around in the water with no luck with a faint smile.
"I just have to sneak up on them," Jin Feng answered with a firm nod, flipping over to all fours, bum in the air and swaying a bit like a cat taking aim as he waited for the fish to stop hiding and come out again.
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:55 am
"One sneaks up by loudly pouncing now?" came the quiet voice of a young man with dark hair and a rather nice outfit to be out in this area. Long was dressed in some of his poorer clothes, but for his station, those were still quite fancy. Upon his hip was the bag containing his art supplies, and running around his heels was the ever excited Gui.
The lotus child seemed fascinated to see more people and rushed up to greet the Englishwoman with something between a fumbling bow and a curtsy. It seemed she was SLIGHTLY more familiar or comfortable with European customs or speech than the Chinese her father taught her, but the girl struggled with everything in bits. After her very quick greeting to Lillian, she thoughtlessly rushed over to crouch by Jin Feng. "What is it you are doing?" her speech somewhere between broken English and broken Chinese.
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:05 am
Lillian had been flicking mud off her clothes, slowly coming to accept the face that the dress she was wearing was a lost cause when she was greeted by the other lotus child.
She reacted with a surprised "Oh!" and returned with half a curtsy before moving in the opposite direction to get out of the mud. Her skirt layers were unpleasantly heavier since they'd been dropped and splattered and her proper, polite raising wouldn't even allow her to entertain the notion of removing a layer.
At the very least she flopped to sit down and pulled her muddy shoes off to relieve the icky feeling.
Jin Feng looked up to Long at his comment and just stuck his tongue out in traditional brat fashion, only to have Lily snap his name out loud, making him jump and go back to watching the water.
He turned his eyes up briefly to Gui and snapped them back to the water, his rear end wriggling again as he shifted his pouncing position slightly. "Catching fish," He said with a nod, resisting saying she talked funny since he had just recently gotten snapped at and he didn't want his caretaker to shout at him again. The tiger child had a decent vocabulary in English and the local Chinese dialect, but usually Chinese was all people he met spoke so just for the novelty of it, he used English, since she seemed like she'd understand.
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:55 pm
Long politely looked away as the woman lifted her skirts to escape the wetted dirt. He drew a towel from his bag, one of many he'd brought knowing Gui would most likely end up messy from being out, and that his own paints would cause a bit of muss as well. "I hope your clothes aren't ruined, Miss." he offered politely, holding the towel out to her so as to help with the mess. Mud could get everywhere, and with so many layered skirts, she was probably feeling awful - it was times like these that Long was glad males wore much simpler attire.
Gui nodded in a fascinated manner at the description of catching fish, but seemed puzzled by the motion Jin Feng had done at her father. No one in her home stuck their tongue out at others - not even the children, lest they have it possibly cut out! She was unfamiliar with this gesture and crossed her eyes a bit to see how it looked when she stuck her own tongue out.
Drawing it back in to speak, the girl inquired, "Why did you stick your tongue out at my father? Why did your mother yell at you for it?" she asked, the questions still strange, but coming easier and leaning more towards being in English, as that was the language the family was speaking.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:56 pm
"They can be washed," Lily said with a sigh, wringing out what she could before just flopping her arms on her knees with a pout. She'd learn eventually not to trounce around in such complex clothing, but she had an attachment to her pretty things that dated far back into childhood when pretending to be the princess with the most awesomest fashion sense in the world, so if anything stained even slightly it would be enough to put her into a week long funk.
"Because it was rude, I guess," Jin Feng answered in a little growl that was downright unscary in his high child's voice, ignoring the first question completely because he didn't know how to answer it, really, so he was kind of hoping she would forget she asked.
"Hey! You go over there," He instructed, pointing a few feet in front of him. "When they come out of the reeds we can ambush and corner them," He explained with a sage nod. That was fool proof, right?
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:11 pm
Long nodded, "I would assume so, though I do not know much of the washability of women's clothing. Often it is more complex than what I am called to wear, so I am not the most familiar with how easily it is ruined."
He was mostly being civil and polite here, not particularly sure how to react to either Lily or her state of being muddy and in such a strange outfit. But still, he was a nice person anyway and the representative of his family, so it was best to default to polite and charming during such situations anyway - defaulting to bland confusion wouldn't solve anything. At least Gui seemed to be doing better.
The lotus girl nodded a few times, walking over to stand where she had been instructed and looking down towards the water. It occasionally lapped the edges of her pants and shoes as she looked down and it chilled her a little, but in a pleasant and interesting way. However, she was more concerned about filling her curiosity than thinking about the beauty in river water, so she went on asking silly questions of Jin.
"What means the word ambush? Do I throw leaves at them?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:11 am
"What?!" Jin Feng practically sputtered when she suggested throwing leaves on them. "No!" Was he being unfair about her having questions? Hell yes, but he was a close minded little brat sometimes and was often baffled by the assumption someone might not have had the same upbringing he did, were one is drilled on sometimes the most useless vocabulary and misspeaking could result in getting smacked upside the head with a book.
"No, I mean, you pounce on them like--" He quickly demonstrated with an ungraceful leap into the shallows on all fours to flail and splash around, no doubt scaring away anything stupid enough to have crept back in the lull of his antics. He stood up again, squaring his shoulders and giving a firm little nod as if to say 'that's how it's done' and moved back to his position and get into a funny little pose to wait.
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