Xiu
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Post by Xiu on Jan 6, 2009 11:58:53 GMT -5
Xiu exercised a wee bit of enchantment to dull the diners around them, who had started to titter at Tsuzuki's thoughtlessly loud comment. It had not been noisy, of course, or Xiu might have taken to frowning at it, but certainly it was not the sort of conversation most of these humans heard regularly.
The comment about motherhood did stir a few feelings, but Xiu had had a lot of time to watch her various children grow up and have children of her own, and it was not a burning pain that it might have been several centuries back. She nodded once, rather solemnly. "I have been that, among other things. It was a very long time ago." Of course, now that she was thinking about it, the deaths of her first brood had been hard to bear at the time. But it did come with the package. Many a lover and child had been lost to her over the years, and she had grown accustomed to it, if not hard.
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Post by Tsuzuki on Jan 7, 2009 8:35:22 GMT -5
Tsuzuki nodded, at least in acknowledgement, for he really had nothing to say to that. Rather he was thinking, absently rubbing a thumb as he did so. He'd been raised by his sister- his mother- no. Tsuzuki cut that thought off before it even began, before a nameless panic began to take over, and reached out for his wineglass. Xiu as a mother...he could see it. There was a certain...severity? Protectiveness? Something. He was reasonably certain that anyone who messed with her children would not do so for long, anyway.
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Xiu
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Post by Xiu on Jan 8, 2009 16:31:31 GMT -5
((By the way, we talked about it a while back, but never came to any conclusions. D'you want to do a thread with Tsuzuki and Pippa sometime?))
At this point, the waiter brought out their soup, and paused to ask if they would like their bill or if there would be anything else. Xiu did not imagine she would be getting much else, but as she opened her mouth to respond her eyes happened to land on Tsuzuki (who looked preoccupied, for the record, but which did not distress her much; he seemed someone who was, like a a child, easily distracted by little things and thoughts). She continued to look at him, remembering that the dinner was something of a present to him and he really should be the one to respond.
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Post by Tsuzuki on Jan 8, 2009 16:57:48 GMT -5
Tsuzuki's eyes happened to drift past Xiu and then snag as he realized she was looking back at him. Then he spotted the waiter, and his soup, and Tsuzuki's brain finally caught up with his ears. "Oh! What kind of desserts do you have?"
Tsuzuki listened attentively, straight in his seat, practically salvating at every dish the waiter rattled off. Then he bit his lip, his eyes sparkling as the waiter named a dessert that roughly translated to, 'Death by Chocolate.'
"I want that one!"
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Xiu
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Post by Xiu on Nov 5, 2009 9:28:14 GMT -5
Xiu had to bite her own lip on a laugh that might have nearly become a very foxy yelp, so sudden and short was the impulse to do it.
She traced her ornamental, long first fingernail down the menu, which the waiter had showed her without being told to - later, he would be unable to say why exactly he'd done this, and paused over that one.
"Order a whole cake," said Xiu very calmly, raised one jewelled eyebrow at Tsuzuki as though to challenge him, completely not realizing that she could probably have ordered, like, three.
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