Moderation is for scrubs and shoe fish water is a delicacy in some parts of the universe, don't be a food snob. Thankfully the offered hand summons her like dog hearing its owner's whistle and all attempts to suffocate and/or poison her new family is temporarily forgotten. Lup's taking care of everything right now? She doesn't even have to explain where this nice, new word came from and while she expected to have to supplement her own meaning, Lup's kind enough to use her language. They're warm. He's warm. Ergo, he's an uncle now. Congratulations. This is what happens when you steal a kid in the woods-it escalates.
"Okay. We'll play together. I can hold cumin for you." There's a tension building in her body though. Because while Lup had explained it, said it was okay, said it didn't matter even if she made her sad one day, Taako hadn't been privy to any of that. It's definitely a verbal contract he hadn't signed yet and she watches him with the expression of a person waiting to hear bad news. There's sinking feeling forming in gut as she tries to decipher what that laughter means and tries to take it at face value. Laughter's good. Learning a new word made him happy, maybe, so-
All she can really do is hold Lup's hand with her own and watch the expression on his face, to see if it twists into something negative. Upset. Unhappy. "It's a scary and good word. That's what I learned. Saying that kind of thing is supposed to make your heart feel good, but it's okay if it doesn't. You can say 'it hurts' and I won't say it again."
Which is the nice little out she offers from this situation. It had been a source of contention for her in Lup's memory anyway, saying this, because she knows it's going to backfire. That they're going to be upset with her one day-mad that she ever thought it was okay to say these special words that give her comfort. Nice words, meant just for them, since they've become such a intrinsic part of her life she doesn't want to let go of.
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"Okay. We'll play together. I can hold cumin for you." There's a tension building in her body though. Because while Lup had explained it, said it was okay, said it didn't matter even if she made her sad one day, Taako hadn't been privy to any of that. It's definitely a verbal contract he hadn't signed yet and she watches him with the expression of a person waiting to hear bad news. There's sinking feeling forming in gut as she tries to decipher what that laughter means and tries to take it at face value. Laughter's good. Learning a new word made him happy, maybe, so-
All she can really do is hold Lup's hand with her own and watch the expression on his face, to see if it twists into something negative. Upset. Unhappy. "It's a scary and good word. That's what I learned. Saying that kind of thing is supposed to make your heart feel good, but it's okay if it doesn't. You can say 'it hurts' and I won't say it again."
Which is the nice little out she offers from this situation. It had been a source of contention for her in Lup's memory anyway, saying this, because she knows it's going to backfire. That they're going to be upset with her one day-mad that she ever thought it was okay to say these special words that give her comfort. Nice words, meant just for them, since they've become such a intrinsic part of her life she doesn't want to let go of.