Easter Eggs!

[border_princess]

Helen is sitting in the kitchen She has changed her clothing to something a little more rich, but is, for all purposes, still a boy. The table is littered with tools, jars of dye, and piles of hollowed eggs. She picks one and begins to draw designs onto the shell. Every so often she stops, lets it soak in one of the dyes, removes it, makes more

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[fingersofleaf]

Sir Percy is in the kitchen looking for something in one of the drawers there--he's discovered that they're great for finding obscure odds and ends--and as soon as he finds what he wants and pockets it, he comes over to the table and flops down across from her. "Oooh, hi. Are you gettin' ready for Easter?"

[fingersofleaf]

"Can I help? I can help, if you want."

[border_princess]

"Certainly. Just do what I do." She then proceeds to give him the same lesson she gave Michael.

Typist: I am too lazy to type it out again...

[fingersofleaf]

He begins very eagerly, but he has a gentle touch, for all his hands are hard with work; and he manages not to break his eggs.

Typist: totally understood.

[border_princess]

Helen goes slowly, trying to make each egg more perfect and beautiful than the last. She looks over at Percy. "How are you doing?"

[fingersofleaf]

"I like it." He smiles at her, big and engaging and excited, smile of someone who's doing something new and thinks it's wonderful.

[border_princess]

The smile makes Helen feel the kind of sisterly affection that she felt for her cousins. "What is your name?"

[fingersofleaf]

"Well, Percy." Beam, and he runs a hand through his red hair sheepishly. "What's yours?"

[border_princess]

She is so close to slipping and saying Helen. "My name is Vasil Kurtzevitch. It is nice to meet you."

[fingersofleaf]

"You, too! Where are you from? I'm from Wales, so it's really Peredur, but everybody calls me Percy."

[border_princess]

"I am from Poland. Where is Wales?"

[fingersofleaf]

"It's down from Poland. You know where England is?"

[border_princess]

"Yes."

[fingersofleaf]

"It's stuck on ta England, right up above it."

[border_princess]

"Oh. What is it like?"

[fingersofleaf]

"It's nice. Lotsa sheep. And the prettiest lakes of anywhere, I figure. I haven't been there in a long time, though, not since I was fifteen."