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[gandere]

[ Being a mother... isn't as easy as it sounds, Rin's painfully discovering. While the boy she adopted is a sweet little thing, he is also a boy and Rin is lacking in experience when it comes to boys that age. In Japan they were proper and didn't mingle much with girls so there's minimal experience from her childhood to go by. Growing up, there was a baby sister for a few years, but she doesn't like to think about those times either so it's no good. She's been a mother for a week and she's already crawling to her locket after asking around. Turns out most of her close companions either suck at parenting (thanks Saber for everything Mordred) or just planned to never have children at all (because that's helpful, Waver), leaving her in the dark. If only there were self help books available, but of course there's not.

Plus this gives her a reason to actually pester people. See what's been going on now that Caer Scima is rubble and everyone is scattered throughout the world. Let people know she's alive. Give them a chance to speak with her before she shut her locket for good. So here's one Rin, dressed tomboyish for her poking around for all to see. ]

Boys are really a handful, aren't they? No--before you ask--I'm not having relationship problems. I mean little boys. I'm not sulking, but it's really kind of hard to think of activities for someone his age-! [ She's brooding pretty fiercely by now. ] When I was seven years old, all I ever wanted to do was study, so why won't he?

[ Just in case anyone in Allaidh Darach needed further proof that Rin Tohsaka was a nerd. ]

I don't even know what to feed him since Emiya left. [ Yes, that's a public jab at his departure today. She's still a bit sour over it. ] He's a stupid boy, so he knows what boys need! What if I don't have enough of the right vegetables and his growth is stunted as a result. That can happen, can't it?!

[ There's a sound in the background that causes her to nearly drop her locket, the magus fumbling with it for a few seconds before it lands solidly in her palm. ]

Crap, crap, crap! What if he heard-?! Oh no, he's going to think he's an inconvenience and—[ Snapping the locket shut. It'll be a couple minutes to confirm it's clear before she replies to anyone. ]

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[stickseller]

When I was seven, one of my favourite things in the world was taking things apart, and trying to put them back together. Or finding things at the scrapyard and try to either fix them, or make something new. (The scrapyard? Howard, your social class is showing. Clearing his throat now.) I also really liked playing baseball?

(He's not really good with kids, or rather, he's not really around kids much, so this is mostly just his upbringing.)

My Ma would stick me outside to run off the energy whenever I was too much for her. Then I'd get home and eat whatever she told me for dinner, too.

[gandere]

He's a clever and quiet boy. That may be what interests him most...

[ Mechanical stuff is harder to come by due to the way this world is though there could be magical puzzles to solve. Riddles, artifacts, something. ]

Whatever she told you?

[stickseller]

You could probably even just give him some lincoln logs, then. Let him have at it. Controlled chaos, since he can build it up and then break it down again.

(A shrug.)

Even my vegetables.

[gandere]

What are lincoln logs? [ It's nice that he was such a good boy, but Rin's not sure if she can convince anyone to eat anything. Even Fizzle, her will-o-wisp, refuses to burn certain items.

And he's fire. ] And where do I acquire said logs?

[stickseller]

It's a toy? like, they're shaped like logs, obviously, and they have little divots in them so you can click them together and build things.

(Uhm. That may be harder.) Someone who's a decent carver? I'm not. The kid would probably be an adult before I finished a set.

[gandere]

He could just become a carpenter's apprentice. There's plenty of them who work at the ship...

[ Oh. That's who she can ask. ] Thank you, I'll look into it.

So he'll build things and break them. Why?

[stickseller]

...he's seven. I think that's against some child labour laws. And it's not meant to be work. It's just meant to be fun for him.

You're welcome.

Because it'll help him learn.

[gandere]

I don't think those kind of laws exist here. [ A pity. ]

That and the age of adulthood is twelve here. In five years, he's an adult. Isn't that something to think about?

[stickseller]

They probably should.

(He considers a moment, thinking about it, as it was, and then scoffing lightly.) Shouldn't he be in school?

[gandere]

School here isn't the same as it would be from a world identical to your own or mine. For now I can handle his education and when I must travel, my colleague is a professor back home so he'll fill in for me.

[ Scian will be highly educated between all the adults at The Barrel. ]