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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]

Is that so?

Do you enjoy apples and other fruits found high? [ She adds as an afterthought: ] I wonder if I can find coconuts here.

[muscovy]

I don't have much money. [He's really rather poor both as an individual and a nation - when Maglor, a noble from another world, took care of him in the Drabwurld might just have been the time of his life when he enjoyed the most continuous prosperity away from feasts. He's learned to live like that and as long as people aren't starving too badly he is somewhat content, But expensive foods and spices and beverages are just a bit out of his league.]

...What are coconuts?

[gandere]

They're a tropical fruit. [ Pity he doesn't have much money.

Rin's just going to try to ignore the guilt that's swelling within her at that. She can't take on every charity case she comes across even if she wants to. ]

High up in a palm tree.

[muscovy]

[He's used to it. And also being in the Drabwurld has the massive advantage that it will only be him who's starving, should that happen - no thousands of people to worry about as well, whose starvation and potential death of it he will feel on top of his own hunger. He still feels lonely being without people, only being himself in his head, but it has advantages.]

What kind of tree is a palm tree?

[gandere]

Geez... you really haven't lived, have you? [ Her voice is soft despite the tease in her words. ]

Those kind of trees have large leaves, but a singular trunk. High up, where the leaves can grow to be larger than a person even.

[muscovy]

[He giggles.] You look like I'm older than you, yes?

But I live North. Maybe they have palm trees in the south, where there is no snow that could break those big leaves. Or I used to live there, before I came here.