A new mother figure

[sun_droplet]

Who: sun_droplet and mantarayhealer
What: Dinner time with Retsu, talking about Rapunzel's power, and Rapunzel finding a new mother-figure.
Where: House 9
When: Dinner time; right after this
Warnings: Cuteness?

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[mantarayhealer]

It was only after turning off the PORTAL that Retsu realized she hadn't asked the young woman's name. Nonetheless, she supposed she would find out soon enough. Her dinner was standard fare: curry on rice, along with green tea and steamed dumplings.

She answered the door with a smile. "I am so glad you could come," she said warmly. She looked the girl over surreptitiously, both with her eyes, and with her inner senses. She was human, as far as Retsu could tell--a westerner, of course. But there was an odd feeling of power about her, one Retsu hadn't encountered before. The closest she had felt to it was the power of Orihime, the human girl who could heal. It confirmed her suspicions that this young woman's questions about healing were not simply theoretical.

As she motioned her in, she added, "I'm afraid I didn't catch your name earlier." She held her PORTAL in her hand, hoping it would handle the translation in face-to-face communications, just as it had earlier.

[sun_droplet]

The first thing Rapunzel noticed about Retsu was her hair. It was so long. Not as long as Rapunzel's, of course, but longer than she had seen on others. Rapunzel smiled brightly. It was nice to know that she wasn't the only one with long hair. Now they had more then one thing in common.

Rapunzel's PORTAL, a small book, was in her hand. "I'm Rapunzel." She said, wearing a bright smile on her face.

Retsu had such a nice expression, and the air around her felt safe and welcoming. She wished that she had someone like Retsu in her world, so she wouldn't feel so alone. Having her mother was important, but knowing there were other people like her made her wish she could've been around them.

"You know how to cook too?" She ask as she smelled the curry in the air. "What is that?" It wasn't a smell Rapunzel was used to, or smelled before.

[mantarayhealer]

"Pleased to meet you, Repunzel-san." She noticed, as the young woman came in, that her hair must be quite unbelievably long to form a braid that thick, and twined that many times. It must fall well past her feet.

"It's curry and rice--a common food, where I come from." She closed the door, motioning her to a cushion on the floor, beside a low table. "I find cooking quite relaxing, though I don't always have the time for it."

[sun_droplet]

"Curry?" Rapunzel took a deep breath of the smell. It was something she never smelled before. She gave a questioning look at the smell. It wasn't disgusting, but it was very different.

"Oh! I love cooking! It's one of my favorite hobbies!" Rapunzel wasn't used to being around people, so she still wasn't used to the concept that other people were interested in the same things she was.

Rapunzel took a seat next to Retsu, trying to copy how the other woman sat. It was so different, but Rapunzel was opening to trying new things. "How do you eat it?"