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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 19:16:00 GMT -5
Rosey coughed but obediently swallowed the drink. Gendry didn't move. "Don't like washing."
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 19:20:39 GMT -5
"You have to jariri." Kesi said, not looking at him as she poured a little boiling water into a bowl and added some spice to it.
"You need to wash else I cannot be letting you stay with Rosey."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 19:39:45 GMT -5
He looked at her with big blue eyes. "Why? Water is horrid. Cold and wet. And dirty. Don't like it."
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 19:42:46 GMT -5
Kesi looked over for the first time and chuckled, remembering a conversation that she had once had with her boy.
"Do not be being silly jariri." She said, "Be coming here."
She mixed cold water with hot for him.
"Water is being clean here." To prove her point she drank a mouthful of the cold water.
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 19:50:14 GMT -5
Gendry slid off the bed with a groan. He shuffled his feet and clenched his fists. "Water bad to drink. Everyone says so."
Rosey coughed in the bed, feebly this time.
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 19:51:56 GMT -5
"Have some." Kesi said, pushing her glass to him. "And be washing yourself."
She went back to Rosey's side and felt her temperature.
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 20:02:10 GMT -5
Gendry grumbled but slowly began to wash himself. Rosey was hot and slightly feverish but she remained conscious and she tried to smile at Kesi.
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 20:06:42 GMT -5
Kesi smiled back at her, and brushed some of her dirty hair off of her forehead.
"Are you wanting anything, zakidadaya?" She asked. "I am thinking that you are very pretty girl."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 20:14:33 GMT -5
"Ale," Rosey whispered. "Want ale. Hot spice ale to keep me warm. Kind lady." She tried to smile again.
Gendry finished washing and stood next to Kesi. "Landlord at the tavern let us have hot spiced ale a time or two. But he died and next man chased us off."
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 20:16:37 GMT -5
"I am not being landlord at tavern." Kesi said, raising her eyebrow but looking amused all the same. She continued to stroke the girl's hair. "I can make you a hot drink that will be making you feel better, but no ale."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 20:19:46 GMT -5
Rosey seemed disappointed but she was too weak to protest.
Fortunately the door opened and Brusco came back with a servant bearing a tray of food. The soup was there, steaming hot with small chunks of vegetable swimming in the broth. There was a jug of water and a jug of wine and a small plate of lemoncakes too.
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 20:23:56 GMT -5
"Thank you." Kesi said, finding smaller bowls and filling them for the two children so she could regulate what they could eat.
"Can you be feeding yourself?" She asked Gendry as she propped Rosey up using her pillows and started to feed her.
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 20:32:13 GMT -5
"Course. I have hands," he said, showing her.
Brusco hovered. "Need anything else?"
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 20:34:16 GMT -5
Kesi smiled and shook her head.
"Am not thinking I do." She said to Brusco. "Thank you. You have been doing more then job today."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 20:45:19 GMT -5
He nodded and went to have his own supper in the great hall. Kesi was left alone with the children to eat.
After a while Gendry asked "Why did you help us?"
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 20:50:28 GMT -5
Kesi continued to feed Rosey.
"Are you wanting me not to?" She asked, once the girl had finished she went to sit and make a paste for Gendry's arm.
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 20:54:38 GMT -5
"Just don't understand. Older people aren't nice to me," Gendry said. "Not ones that lives in big houses and mostly not at all."
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 21:01:04 GMT -5
"Be giving me your hand." Kesi said, holding her palm open for him so that she could put the paste over his burns.
"I have told you that I lost my son." She said. "I have been missing laughs for long time, since being in this country." Kesi paused. "You just reminded me of my Nkuku. He was being little for his age."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 21:15:11 GMT -5
Gendry held out his hand. "I don't grow much," he said. "Not enough food, probably. You loved him a lot"?"
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 21:18:20 GMT -5
"I was being his mother. There is no greater love." Kesi answered. She flipped his hand over and gently rubbed the cooling paste over the burnt skin. "You will be growing now jariri. Be filling little belly with all that is needed."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 22, 2014 21:32:04 GMT -5
"I want to grow tall," he said. "I hate being small. I don't remember my mother."
Rosey coughed in the be but not as harshly as before.
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 22, 2014 21:34:33 GMT -5
"Your mother will always be being here, even when not being remembered." She pressed her fingers against his chest. "Growing tall will be coming in time. Being small is not being too bad a problem. Tallest man in the world may sometimes be wishing for being small."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 23, 2014 6:25:22 GMT -5
"Why? I get hit cos I'm small. Not big enough to hit back," Gendry said. "Not enough to hurt them. Some of the big boys are mean."
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Post by Kesi Mandisa on Jan 23, 2014 6:30:25 GMT -5
"They are." Kesi agreed, slightly distracted by what she was doing as she washed her hands of the paste and tipped his head so that she could check the bruises. "Sometimes children are being most cruel to others."
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Post by Vhagar on Jan 23, 2014 6:45:44 GMT -5
Gendry nodded. He seemed to be bruised all over his face, but that was nothing new for the street children of Flea Bottom. "Not many nice people where I come from," he agreed.
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all alone and also really bored 
Hopefully going to kickstart the festival too
Jul 3, 2014 12:43:09 GMT -5
Hopefully going to kickstart the festival too
Jul 3, 2014 12:43:09 GMT -5