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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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[gandere]

Wandering?

Why would anyone go wandering in this place? It's a war zone. [ Now that it's been confirmed, all she can do is worry about it. ]

How far would you make it before your father caught you?

[cockade]

War zones never seem to stop curiosity, I've found. [Rin receives a smirk for that.] He's a child- he'll want to do whatever you tell him to not do, just because he's curious.

[Arno tilts his head just a little, thinking.] It really depended where I was, I think. Sometimes he'd find me in five minutes. Others, it'd be far longer. I remember one time I hid so well from him it took him two hours to find me.

[Ah, youth. That was before the horrible mess that happened in the village of Versailles.]

[gandere]

[ Great, that kind of independence is a chore to keep up with, but she'll have to force herself to manage. ]

Two hours isn't so bad.

Were there times he'd give up and you'd come home on your own? I think I'll commit to that path of parenting if I may.

[cockade]

[She's going to have to when it comes to adopting a child. Arno frowns slightly, unsure of how to put into words what he's thinking.]

Not really, no. He always kept looking. [A beat.] It was something he promised himself, I think- to always find me when he lost me.

[Because really, Arno was all Charles Dorian had left.]

[gandere]

[ That's kind of sad to hear, but she pushes on for a reason completely unrelated to the topic at hand. She lost her father when she was young and hearing about how others were raised by their own helps her deal with the pain a little better. ]

That kind of promise, huh?

You must have been very close.

[cockade]

I'd like to think so. [It's given with a wry twist of his mouth, though not one that means anything terrible. Arno imagines his father loved him just as much as any parent would love their only child.]

It's always hard to tell when you're a child.