They would need to catch me first. Most people are slow and unestimate me because I'm small, but it makes me very fast!
[The young Kaedehara is very confident with his ability to cause mischief and also not care about the consequences of it too much. It's really not too unlike himself as an adult, a man who has confessed that he has committed crimes without remose.
He was starting to relax, letting his feet splash beneath the water. Kazuha always liked going to the beach or to the docks when he'd been allowed when he was younger, though he doesn't often get to go there now, what few servants they had left stretched too thin with other duties.]
I hope so. Maybe not... I hear they cost too much mora.
[Once again his voice was in someone else's tone, something he'd been told rather than discovered for himself. Maybe he would have elaborated more, but the man says something about the Shogun and suddenly he's less interested in kabuki.
He has more of that critical, guarded look that the samurai would adopt later in life, though without the ever present smile. The child sizes Kunikuzushi up, noting his appearance again, before he just smiles and flops in the water. He didn't know the Archon had any family and hadn't thought about it, but now that he knows he's happy for her.]
Oh, that makes sense. No human's that pretty. [Children can be so accepting. He gasps only seconds later, climbing back to the edge close to the man. His expression looks very serious and chastising.] Why did you tell me I was being rude, Kuni-sama?
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[The young Kaedehara is very confident with his ability to cause mischief and also not care about the consequences of it too much. It's really not too unlike himself as an adult, a man who has confessed that he has committed crimes without remose.
He was starting to relax, letting his feet splash beneath the water. Kazuha always liked going to the beach or to the docks when he'd been allowed when he was younger, though he doesn't often get to go there now, what few servants they had left stretched too thin with other duties.]
I hope so. Maybe not... I hear they cost too much mora.
[Once again his voice was in someone else's tone, something he'd been told rather than discovered for himself. Maybe he would have elaborated more, but the man says something about the Shogun and suddenly he's less interested in kabuki.
He has more of that critical, guarded look that the samurai would adopt later in life, though without the ever present smile. The child sizes Kunikuzushi up, noting his appearance again, before he just smiles and flops in the water. He didn't know the Archon had any family and hadn't thought about it, but now that he knows he's happy for her.]
Oh, that makes sense. No human's that pretty. [Children can be so accepting. He gasps only seconds later, climbing back to the edge close to the man. His expression looks very serious and chastising.] Why did you tell me I was being rude, Kuni-sama?