Mother Makes Her Move

Dec 12, 2012 02:31

I wrote this in response to aldersprig's first prompt of "More Nai."

After the police had left, Madam Sung cornered her husband in his study.  Cornered is perhaps too aggressive a term, he was reading a scholarly journal and she brought him tea.  When he looked up from his reading to thank her, she asked him, “Sung Kao, do you remember who introduced us?”

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aldersprig December 11 2012, 15:33:27 UTC
*applause* good mom, Good mom, now dad... ack.

A buddy for my father would NOT be a good husband for me!

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rix_scaedu December 11 2012, 15:37:47 UTC
And Nai's still only seventeen...

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kelkyag December 11 2012, 17:46:24 UTC
This, yes. Ack!

Hell of a thing to pull of when you're six, too. How did she even find a gi school as lightly populated as that? It's presumably within walking (biking?) distance of their house (since she's also been getting herself there since she was six?), but tagging along with an older sibling to their school would be a lot easier than finding one you've never been to before. I wonder whether Master Que saw her potential then.

Good thing she's gotten good at doing things for herself instead of just doing without?

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aldersprig December 11 2012, 17:47:55 UTC
I've kind of wondered how she ended up the one left out, actually.

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anonymous December 11 2012, 17:03:55 UTC
How bittersweet. At first I was happy seeing that Mom is being very sensible and honest with herself and even confronting her husband. But when I read that the one thing I had thought they did right for her, get her a gi teacher, was just another thing they messed up... Oh poor Nai.

Although, now I'm curious about why children would ever bring cookies to gi teachers. If I'm understanding correctly, Mom is implying that there is a tradition of doing that for some reason.

-Friendly Anon

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rix_scaedu December 11 2012, 18:30:49 UTC
Sort of a "Thank you for taking me on" ritual. The sort of thing a six year old might mistake for a "Please teach me" bribe.

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tuftears December 11 2012, 19:37:35 UTC
But how adorabubble! ^_^

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rix_scaedu December 12 2012, 07:49:11 UTC
:)

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kelkyag December 11 2012, 21:42:28 UTC
On a different note ... I wonder what the odds are of Nai being the reincarnated scholar. Or of his having swapped out with someone else and her being the reincarnation of a powerful sorceror ...

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rix_scaedu December 12 2012, 07:50:50 UTC
It's not her. We have briefly seen the brother concerned and I plan to get to that later...

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