Being Bound is getting old, Momiji thinks. He's enjoyed the vacation - really! - but now not seeing the rest of the Zodiac is starting to feel incredibly weird, in an almost visceral way
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The rabbit-boy looks up from his paper at the greeting, rolling the dark crayon in between his fingers off to the edge of its box. Then, he just glances down at the drawing, wearing a wry, little grin.
"Not really - I'm pretty sure normal seahorses don't look like that."
His grasp of marine anatomy is just good enough that he knows it's bad!
Not that this stops Momiji from grinning hugely at Adrian's suggestion. His poor art skills are just filling his pictures with a depth and honesty that even he didn't realize, apparently!
Funny how that works.
"But it is supposed to be a dragon, kind of! 'Cause 'seahorse' in Japanese means 'baby dragon,' soo..."
Momiji won't argue with praise, even if he does look awfully amused by it, as he scoots his chair back and smiles over at Duck. He just settles for twirling the crayon he's working with, a light brown, between his fingers.
"You really like it? It's supposed to be my cousin Ha'ri."
Though, at the moment, it's just half a sea-horse and an ill-defined sketch of a man.
His crayon turns downwards, pointing to the unfinished picture he was doodling at, seahorse and all. (And not exactly making clear whether he means the seahorse or the man.)
Then, with a little laugh:
"The other ones are of my cousins, too, though. I have a lot of them!"
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Adrian is in school uniform today. Unlike Momiji's, it's of the correct gender, but he's wearing bright red socks that obviously don't go.
"They're good."
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The rabbit-boy looks up from his paper at the greeting, rolling the dark crayon in between his fingers off to the edge of its box. Then, he just glances down at the drawing, wearing a wry, little grin.
"Not really - I'm pretty sure normal seahorses don't look like that."
His grasp of marine anatomy is just good enough that he knows it's bad!
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"And dragons can look like anything, being semimythological."
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Not that this stops Momiji from grinning hugely at Adrian's suggestion. His poor art skills are just filling his pictures with a depth and honesty that even he didn't realize, apparently!
Funny how that works.
"But it is supposed to be a dragon, kind of! 'Cause 'seahorse' in Japanese means 'baby dragon,' soo..."
It's an art pun!
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* That's 'Indian' as in 'from India,' rather than 'Native American.'
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And, in the process, revealing that he has a very cartoonish idea of what seahorses are supposed to look like. They're hard to draw!
"A bunch of my cousins, mostly."
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The boy giggles at that, flashing a wide smile, before quickly shaking his head from side to side.
"Not really, though. They're not pets or anything, they're just..."
He pauses for a moment. This is not something that lends itself well to brief explanation! So, he just snickers, instead:
"Members of the family, too, I guess."
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Duck's standards are maybe not high - but then again, Momoji's drawings are significantly better than hers are, at least.
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Momiji won't argue with praise, even if he does look awfully amused by it, as he scoots his chair back and smiles over at Duck. He just settles for twirling the crayon he's working with, a light brown, between his fingers.
"You really like it? It's supposed to be my cousin Ha'ri."
Though, at the moment, it's just half a sea-horse and an ill-defined sketch of a man.
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Duck beams at Momiji, and then looks at the array of sketches, eyes wide.
"Uh . . . which one?"
Ha'ri could be a boy's name or a girl's name . . . or probably a seahorse's name, too.
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His crayon turns downwards, pointing to the unfinished picture he was doodling at, seahorse and all. (And not exactly making clear whether he means the seahorse or the man.)
Then, with a little laugh:
"The other ones are of my cousins, too, though. I have a lot of them!"
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