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[August 20, 2008][Original] Suddenly, Communication!
Title: Suddenly, Communication!
Day/Theme: Aug. 20, 2008 "I am to be pitied, not to be sold."
Series: Original (Messina)
Character/Pairing: Tetsu, Christine, Seif
Rating: G
"He can't speak and he can't write," Christine considered this information carefully, "Did you ever think to ask if he could draw?" She brightened at the idea and turned to Tetsu, "Can you?"
Having fidgeted impatiently throughout their discussion, feeling very on the outside of things, he was glad to have their attention directed specifically to him again. He nodded and muttered a low sound that seemed something like, "uh-huh."
Seif put his hand to his head, "Why didn't I think of that?" and stepped around Father Alywin's desk to borrow a pencil and pad of paper. He passed them to Tetsu, who enthusiastically set to work, leaning the notepad against the side of a cabinet as he sketched.
Christine peered over the young man's shoulder cheerily, anxious to see what he would draw and how skillfully he could do it. "You're so fast! Look, Seif, he's drawing a river."
"If that's in the area, it's probably the Shabird Delta with all those houses and boats," Seif remarked thoughtfully.
The boats, as Tetsu depicted them, were little more than half ovals with triangles for sails and the houses were scribbled in with just as scant detail, but the meaning was clear. He finished by adding a man with a net onto one of the smaller boats and circling the long figure several times. He pushed the pad of paper into Christine's hands.
"So you're a fisherman, aren't you, Tetsu?" Christine said pleasantly.
It was a relief to be understood. Communicating with anyone but his mother and father was always something of a struggle. Seif was a bit quick to jump to conclusions- Tetsu actually came from Galiconn, almost the opposite end of the Shabird from its delta- but Christine was kind and willing to patiently puzzle out the meanings of his gestures and drawings. If she rushed to any assumptions, at least she kept them to herself.
"You don't have a fishing pole on you," Seif mused, "And I don't think you're carrying a net either, so how did you catch those fish back at the creek?"
Tetsu held out his hands, spreading his fingers wide and waggling them before the knight.
Seif was impressed and clasped Tetsu's hands in his own. "With your bare hands! If that's not an amazing survival skill, I don't know what is!"
Day/Theme: Aug. 20, 2008 "I am to be pitied, not to be sold."
Series: Original (Messina)
Character/Pairing: Tetsu, Christine, Seif
Rating: G
"He can't speak and he can't write," Christine considered this information carefully, "Did you ever think to ask if he could draw?" She brightened at the idea and turned to Tetsu, "Can you?"
Having fidgeted impatiently throughout their discussion, feeling very on the outside of things, he was glad to have their attention directed specifically to him again. He nodded and muttered a low sound that seemed something like, "uh-huh."
Seif put his hand to his head, "Why didn't I think of that?" and stepped around Father Alywin's desk to borrow a pencil and pad of paper. He passed them to Tetsu, who enthusiastically set to work, leaning the notepad against the side of a cabinet as he sketched.
Christine peered over the young man's shoulder cheerily, anxious to see what he would draw and how skillfully he could do it. "You're so fast! Look, Seif, he's drawing a river."
"If that's in the area, it's probably the Shabird Delta with all those houses and boats," Seif remarked thoughtfully.
The boats, as Tetsu depicted them, were little more than half ovals with triangles for sails and the houses were scribbled in with just as scant detail, but the meaning was clear. He finished by adding a man with a net onto one of the smaller boats and circling the long figure several times. He pushed the pad of paper into Christine's hands.
"So you're a fisherman, aren't you, Tetsu?" Christine said pleasantly.
It was a relief to be understood. Communicating with anyone but his mother and father was always something of a struggle. Seif was a bit quick to jump to conclusions- Tetsu actually came from Galiconn, almost the opposite end of the Shabird from its delta- but Christine was kind and willing to patiently puzzle out the meanings of his gestures and drawings. If she rushed to any assumptions, at least she kept them to herself.
"You don't have a fishing pole on you," Seif mused, "And I don't think you're carrying a net either, so how did you catch those fish back at the creek?"
Tetsu held out his hands, spreading his fingers wide and waggling them before the knight.
Seif was impressed and clasped Tetsu's hands in his own. "With your bare hands! If that's not an amazing survival skill, I don't know what is!"