Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2022 22:44:24 GMT -5
"Is that what you think?" She asked the boy, prodding his belly with the tip of her index finger. "That your dyr will be so much larger we could not possibly challenge you? Well, no matter a rabbit or a bear, I'll still hold you down and give you noogies and kisses and there is nothing you or your dyr will be able to do about it, little brother. You might as well get used to it now and make it easier on yourself. No matter what your father says." She turned to pointedly shove the words in Embric's face.
"That just sounds like an excuse for inaction. Every time we're out numbered, you say it's a lesson. I think you're pulling our legs. All six of them." Savi said as he dipped his snout into the cup and once again began to lap up the water inside.
Xanthe crossed her arms, a little pout appearing on her full lips as the girl claimed she would never turn on her father. Sometimes Xanthe wished she'd had siblings of her own. Legba would occasionally in the little games Xanthe would play with Embric and his children, and occasionally even Rex would take her side because she was out numbered, but more often than not it was Embric, Aine, the boy, and the girl, all against Xanthe and Savi. It was all fun and games, and the age gap between she and the children did make it easy enough for her to win. They were just as much family as Elijah and Legba were now, but still, she wondered what the sibling bond would be like.
As he gazed at her, her own expression became equally as serious. She stared back, not flinching or looking away. "The time will come...and when it does, I think you'll be surprised which of us is begging for mercy. I'll turn the girl...you'll see. You'll all see." That was her oath, given in just the same serious tone but in what the teenager might have thought was a menacing way - it probably wasn't menacing at all. It was probably just cheesy, and even as the last words were leaving her mouth she was giggling at the silliness of it.
"Yeah probably! Hopefully Legba enforced my no more betting rule. Two nights ago he bet that he could shoot an apple off a stump in the dark, even knowing how his eyesight has gotten in the last few years. So obviously he lost, and we had to hunt and cook the meals for the two wagons behind ours. I shoulda made him do it himself. I only helped for Legba's sake."
She looked back up at him. "What are you making? Anything especially delicious for the best students you've ever had?"
"That just sounds like an excuse for inaction. Every time we're out numbered, you say it's a lesson. I think you're pulling our legs. All six of them." Savi said as he dipped his snout into the cup and once again began to lap up the water inside.
Xanthe crossed her arms, a little pout appearing on her full lips as the girl claimed she would never turn on her father. Sometimes Xanthe wished she'd had siblings of her own. Legba would occasionally in the little games Xanthe would play with Embric and his children, and occasionally even Rex would take her side because she was out numbered, but more often than not it was Embric, Aine, the boy, and the girl, all against Xanthe and Savi. It was all fun and games, and the age gap between she and the children did make it easy enough for her to win. They were just as much family as Elijah and Legba were now, but still, she wondered what the sibling bond would be like.
As he gazed at her, her own expression became equally as serious. She stared back, not flinching or looking away. "The time will come...and when it does, I think you'll be surprised which of us is begging for mercy. I'll turn the girl...you'll see. You'll all see." That was her oath, given in just the same serious tone but in what the teenager might have thought was a menacing way - it probably wasn't menacing at all. It was probably just cheesy, and even as the last words were leaving her mouth she was giggling at the silliness of it.
"Yeah probably! Hopefully Legba enforced my no more betting rule. Two nights ago he bet that he could shoot an apple off a stump in the dark, even knowing how his eyesight has gotten in the last few years. So obviously he lost, and we had to hunt and cook the meals for the two wagons behind ours. I shoulda made him do it himself. I only helped for Legba's sake."
She looked back up at him. "What are you making? Anything especially delicious for the best students you've ever had?"