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[katherynne]

Date/Time: 'Shit Hits The Fan'; Thursday, Oct 29th, Early Afternoon
Location: Grounds
Open To: Amaury
Currently Involving: Danny

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[haiiro_na_ryuu]

Amaury walked out onto the grounds, holding a notebook and a ball point pen. He had been contemplating on writing a letter home but he was unsure who to write it to. His parents would worry, his cousins wouldn't understand...

So much had changed.

Shaking these thoughts out of his head, he walked on and found Danny lying under a tree with a camera.

"Danny?"

[katherynne]

"Hey," Danny murmured, camera clicking. "You ready?" He lowered the camera and sat up, surveying the younger boy. "Is that what you're wearing?"

[haiiro_na_ryuu]

"Ready? For... oh. I am sorry, I forgot," Amaury looked down at his clothes. He was dressed pretty casually and his hair was a bit unruly so he tried to smooth it down a bit. "Is... is this all right?"

[katherynne]

A bright smile flooded Danny's face. "Yeah! It's perfect." He fluffed Amaury's hair back to its unruly state. "Come on. You're basically just going to wander around and act natural. Start here." He pointed to the ground just beneath the tree.

[katherynne]

Amaury turned obligingly, amused at Danny prodding him. Despite what Danny said though, Amaury didn't believe in it. He treated religion like an obligation: he went to the shinto temple at New Year's and when he needed a quiet place to think. There was an alter near his bed that was set up for his grandfather and Sayumi. But he did these because he was raised to believe it was the right thing to do, not because he actually believed in them.

Danny's camera clicked and whirred and he squirmed, trying to get the right angle. "Anyway," he said, "tell me a children's story. About a bunny, I want to hear about a bunny."

He poked Amaury's foot again. "And move this back."

[haiiro_na_ryuu]

"A story about a bunny?" Amaury repeated, perplexed. He wasn't very good at telling children stories and he was quiet as thought about one. Moving the foot back, he clasped his hands behind his back as he thought of one.

"This is the tale of Kachi-Kachi Yama. He was very naughty tanuki and he would steal vegetables from the field of a very hard-working old farmer and his wife. One day, the farmer's wife caught the naughty tanuki and the tanuki lied to her to get his freedom," Amaury shifted his weight from foot to foot as he tried to remember the tale. "But once he got his freedom, he killed the poor farmer's wife. The farmer was very upset and a kind rabbit saw everything that happened and offered to help the farmer avenge her death. Would you like to know what happens next?"

[katherynne]

The Ravenclaw had been moving around, taking shots and listening. As Amaury paused and asked if he wanted to know what happened next, he laughed almost musically as the camera clicked.

Danny looked out from behind the camera with shining eyes. "What happens next?"

[haiiro_na_ryuu]

Amaury smiled at Danny's laugh and he went on, "The rabbit is very clever, she befriended the tanuki and at one point, she tried to set fire to the unsuspecting tanuki's back. In the end, she challenges him to a boat racing contest with boats that they made, but the tanuki drowns because his boat was made out of mud. The end."

He paused for a bit, "Rather morbid story actually. My grandfather told it to me when I was a child."