Do we dare?
The boy noted her smile and he returned a small reassuring smile of his own, that was the pup his mother had brought back. Though neither of them were pups anymore, in fact they were both fully fledged adults now. That was not a comforting thought for the Adravendi; he’d always figured he’d know what he was doing and where he was going once he was grown instead he was never sure he was doing the right and he wasn’t sure there was anyone he could really go to. For a moment he wished not for the first time that Faite was around to help. But that wasn’t helpful right now so he drove his melancholy into a back corner of his mind. Jewell pointed her nose upwards and Torin turned his gaze skyward as she spoke a word. Her word for sky, then she was moving onto the grass at their feet and finally she spoke the word for family. He nodded and closed his eyes for a moment, muttering under his breath. "See-el?" He attempted to repeat the sounds his sister had uttered, the first wasn’t so hard even if it was noticeably awkward. The second word would be harder. "Eh-re-buh." He tripped slightly over the R sound, finding he wasn’t sure how to replicate that strange rolling sound she’d made. He tried a few more times with no more success than the first. Finally he moved on to the last word. "Fah-me." He looked at her and gave her another small smile. "Famille." The word still didn’t sound the way it did when she spoke it, something about his own accent getting in the way of the sounds but it certainly felt closer than any of his other attempts. He’d need to practice. He thought for a moment. "The," he started. "You put the in front of single nouns. So: The Sky, The Grass and The Family." He gave a single chuckle. "You’ll almost never hear that last one because…" He frowned as he thought. "It’s actually pretty complicated, maybe we should just stick to you teaching me some words for now." |
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