calescent | patience

Alser's granddaughter has the same suggestive "power" blessing from her first set of three that Kiri has. Her other blessings aren't torz either - flexibility is coru, loyalty is hunti - but she is torz, and Alser's current best guess for a successor. She's about the elder prince's age, just a little older than Kiri. Alser asks Kiri if he might visit her at home with this grandchild-of-interest in tow.

Kiri says sure, why not.

And so Alser and Patience Frothen - who is only named for the blessing of patience, and does not wear it in her hair - comes to the house not too long after the princes do.

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pythbox

"I'm good at not getting lost and I've been here longer than you," he says. "Isten, do you wanna come with us?"

Isten thinks this over, then shakes his head.

"Okay. Gonna stay here with the book?"

Nod.

"Okay." The elder prince hugs his little brother and gives him the book and hops up off the bench.

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salt_of_the

Patience follows he-who-she-knows-only-as-Hector. "Can he read already?" she asks as they head inside.

From:

pythbox

"Little bit," says the prince. "He follows along when people read to him, I dunno how much he does on his own."

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salt_of_the

"He's cute. He's what, two?"

From:

pythbox

"Yep! He is both two and cute," says the prince, grinning.

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salt_of_the

Patience laughs. "I'm almost ten and think you are also ten or almost ten."

From:

pythbox

"I am ten," says the prince. "How almost are you almost?"

From:

salt_of_the

"Half a quintile."

From:

pythbox

"That's an almost!" he says agreeably. "Hmm, let's see if Kiri's in the library."

Here is the library! Does it contain Kiri?

From:

calescent

Kiri can be found in the stacks, looking for the best Soechin-Welchin dictionary.

From:

pythbox

"Hi, Kiri!" says the prince. "I brought you a Frothen!"

From:

calescent

"Which Fr- oh, you must be Patience. Hi!"

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salt_of_the

"That's me! It's nice to meet you, since you are why I am here and everything. I didn't even know when we started that Hector and Isten were going to be here, Grandpa told me that you'd made a standing invitation but I didn't expect to overlap."

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calescent

Kiri glances at the prince when Patience says "Hector".

From:

pythbox

He makes a little bit of a face and shrugs a little bit of a shrug.

From:

calescent

"Anyway. Patience, did your grandfather warn you about getting too near me?"

From:

salt_of_the

"Well, he told me about it, and I probably won't braid your hair, but I'm not going to freak out about little bits here and there," shrugs Patience.

From:

pythbox

The prince giggles. "Braiding people's hair sounds fun, though! Hey Kiri, can I braid your hair sometime?"

From:

calescent

"Sure," laughs Kiri. "You can do that."

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pythbox

"Great," beams the prince. He skips over to Kiri and hugs her.

Edited Date: 2014-03-11 02:06 am (UTC)

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calescent

As long as he's there she has a look at what she thinks of Patience calling him "Hector".

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pythbox

He does not like it, but it happens a lot anyway and will continue happening regardless of how much he doesn't like it; Kiri's family is an exception to a general habit of not correcting people in case word gets around to his father - the consequences of which would probably be worse than people calling him Hector a lot.

Edited Date: 2014-03-11 02:21 am (UTC)

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calescent

Kiri elects not to bring it up aloud in front of Patience, who she does not know well enough to know of where that loyalty coin in her hairclip points.