He was still a bit surprised at himself, as he listened to the phone ring, waiting for her to answer, but she had said that she would help; he was not being sidetracked.
He was going to save it for a rainy day, really, because he knew that he should be RESPONSIBLE and with all the weird stuff that was happening he'd probably need it later, but Super Smash Brothers was an emergency, wasn't it?
It was a beautiful city; she hated the way it made her want to break things, but each day that she slept was a day closer to when she could leave - years later, she found it was not so much the city, but the academy's conformation that drove her up the walls.
Kelyn and his brother have never been particularly close, they only share a single parent, there are years that seperate their births; that doesn't mean that his brother wasn't the first person to take Kelyn to see a dragon.
The tournament had ran on schedule, but it still left him with no time to hunt for omiyage; at the station, he bought a box of mochi for his family and a package of cinnamon wafers - her lesson was tomorrow.
((As I have an incredibly sweet tooth, I seem to recall that the cookies aren't quite as sweet as the mochi, even if the mochi was cinnamon flavored, but I had ended up miscalculating and had to give the package that I had intended to eat myself away. So everytime I had it, it was in ice cream. >>;;))
Oh. Squee. It's sad how a sentence can make me squee, but squee!
I love yatsuhashi more than just about any sweet in the world--you're right, they're somewhat less sweet than mochi, and very, very crunchy. *laugh* I loved getting green tea ice cream on the road leading up to Kiyomizu-dera (tourist trap, much?) and eating it with the yatsuhashi I'd bought.
And, ironically, I was about to use them for your 'stepping stones' prompt, but decided that the legend behind them was just a little too tragic. ^^;
Kiyomizudera was clear accross town from where I went to school, so if I got soft serve, it was usually on campus, at this one little shop outside of Kinkakuji (less of a tourist trap, but only slightly, now that I remember the tents inside), or at a tofu shop on the way home that taught me the joys of soy milk through soft serve. (Which later led to the hilarious discovery that they make different sorts of tounyu - and the thick sort is the wrong sort for drinking.)
I don't think I've ever heard that legend; does it have something to do with some sort of bridge? ^^;;
I don't think I've ever heard that legend; does it have something to do with some sort of bridge? ^^;;
Yes indeed--it's one of those awful, depressing stories where two kids are left at home because their mother is going to earn money. They decide to go looking for her, and end up drowning in the river because there wasn't a bridge. So their mother invented a kind of sweet that looked like the tiles of the bridge that she wished had been on that river--or something of the sort. ^^;
Kiki was an oddly sheltered girl: while the internet provided more of an education that most children her age received, it didn't prepare her for the human interaction that her allergies denied her - still, studies have shown that girls are programmed to seek out men like their fathers.
They had crossed the Rubicon, cut their ties, and there was no going back from there; when she heard the news, she knew that she ought to return, but she couldn't quite tell if she wanted to.
One of the first lessons that he was ever taught was about sincerity - not necessarily that he should be sincere, but that it was very important to know how to fake it well.
On especially sunny days, he finds himself inexplicably drawn outside, bringing a book that he'll pretend to read as he basks in the sunlight - that is, unless he finds something better to do.
It was nice to have someone who understood that "I would be delighted to wring your neck" meant "I missed you dearly and am very relieved that you are safe, but believe me, I will wring your neck if you ever do something like that again."
The one upside to the entire situation, Kelyn thought as he wrung out his shirt, was that the size of the cave was rather conducive to sharing body heat.
The nice thing about books was that you could feign interest, then inch closer until you were practically draped over their shoulder - then, when they threw the book at you in disgust, it meant that you got to read it first.
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Date: 2007-05-14 10:18 pm (UTC)Khalil + Leanne
Date: 2007-05-14 10:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-14 10:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-15 12:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-14 10:18 pm (UTC)Nicky + Valhalla
Kelyn + brothers
Meryl
Date: 2007-05-14 10:45 pm (UTC)Nicky
Date: 2007-05-15 12:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-15 05:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-15 12:12 am (UTC)Hiyoshi; Kyoto
I have no tenipuri icons, save one, and kirihara won't work for this, am I right? ^^;;
Date: 2007-05-15 01:49 am (UTC)((As I have an incredibly sweet tooth, I seem to recall that the cookies aren't quite as sweet as the mochi, even if the mochi was cinnamon flavored, but I had ended up miscalculating and had to give the package that I had intended to eat myself away. So everytime I had it, it was in ice cream. >>;;))
Re: I have no tenipuri icons, save one, and kirihara won't work for this, am I right? ^^;;
Date: 2007-05-15 10:30 pm (UTC)I love yatsuhashi more than just about any sweet in the world--you're right, they're somewhat less sweet than mochi, and very, very crunchy. *laugh* I loved getting green tea ice cream on the road leading up to Kiyomizu-dera (tourist trap, much?) and eating it with the yatsuhashi I'd bought.
And, ironically, I was about to use them for your 'stepping stones' prompt, but decided that the legend behind them was just a little too tragic. ^^;
Re: I have no tenipuri icons, save one, and kirihara won't work for this, am I right? ^^;;
Date: 2007-05-15 10:54 pm (UTC)I don't think I've ever heard that legend; does it have something to do with some sort of bridge? ^^;;
Re: I have no tenipuri icons, save one, and kirihara won't work for this, am I right? ^^;;
Date: 2007-05-18 07:41 pm (UTC)Yes indeed--it's one of those awful, depressing stories where two kids are left at home because their mother is going to earn money. They decide to go looking for her, and end up drowning in the river because there wasn't a bridge. So their mother invented a kind of sweet that looked like the tiles of the bridge that she wished had been on that river--or something of the sort. ^^;
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-15 12:54 am (UTC)Kiki - older men
Heritage!Dana - duty
Kelyn - sincerity
Kiki
Date: 2007-05-15 05:37 am (UTC)Dana
Date: 2007-05-15 06:34 am (UTC)Dana
Date: 2007-05-15 09:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 07:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 07:59 am (UTC)attraction, inaction, amusement
kelyn-attraction
Date: 2007-05-16 08:06 am (UTC)kelyn-amusement
Date: 2007-05-16 08:11 am (UTC)kelyn-inaction
Date: 2007-05-16 08:19 am (UTC)Dana - take two
Date: 2007-05-16 12:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 08:20 am (UTC)let's play a game of HOW GAY CAN KELYN MAKE THIS PROMPT?
dragon, book, blue, rain, candy
GO GO GO
kelyn-rain
Date: 2007-05-16 08:32 am (UTC)kelyn-dragon
Date: 2007-05-16 08:44 am (UTC)(really, Sam, you make it too easy.)
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 08:51 am (UTC)Although I'll never stop laughing at Taren's 9 versus Douchebag's 4.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 09:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 07:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 08:33 pm (UTC)kelyn-book
Date: 2007-05-16 11:47 am (UTC)kelyn-blue
Date: 2007-05-17 08:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-17 08:12 am (UTC)