Charlottes Story-time
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Snippet 42: S0ngD0g13
In Kure, shortly after the Basilisk-Incident Debriefing...
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Kaylee sat on her front porch, a drinking-horn next to her in a wooden stand carved from a cedar tree that had once grown on her grandfather's farm. She slowly, carefully ran the blade of her Green-River knife over a whetstone; Nagato had asked through Admirals Goto and Shimada for her to accompany some of the others back to Hogwarts during Spring Break, to clear the castle and to process Harry's basilisk, so the teenage Ironclad was making sure her knives were sharp.
"Gin-ya?" asked Charlotte from above her. "Chu doin'?" The acromantula had grown rapidly since her arrival in Kure, and was now the size of a large Lab puppy.
"Sharpening my knives, Charlotte. Nagato wants me to dress out the snake her boy killed." She didn't use the word 'basilisk', since the last time Charlotte had heard it the spider had panicked and hidden in the cherry tree behind Houshou's house for hours. "You're still not certified as a Working Spider yet, so you'll have to stay here with Jaw and Uncle James. Remember the rules?"
Charlotte dropped down from the porch-roof on a web. "Uh-huh. I gotta listen to Uncle James an' Cousin Jaw, an' be on my best behave-yer. Else I won't get any treats, an' you'll take Lucy away."
Kaylee smiled and sipped at the apple-cider in her horn. She'd very quickly figured out that the best punishments for Charlotte when she misbehaved was to take away her treats and the black-widow plushie that the spidering adored. The plushie was named (by James) Lucretia, but Charlotte called her Lucy.
"Tell me a story, Gin-ya? Pretty Please? With chickens on top?"
Kaylee tested the edge of her knife and called it good. "Okay; which story?"
"Tell me 'bout Rack-Knee, Gin-ya."
"Okay, Charlotte; I'll tell you the story of Arachne. A long time ago, in the city of Athens..."
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When James got home, groceries on one arm and a dog-crate with a squealing piglet in it in the back-seat of the LaSalle, Kaylee was asleep in the porch swing and Charlotte bounded up to him. "Uncle James! Uncle James! Gin-ya an' me watched a cool movie an' I learned a song!"
James chuckled. "You did? What movie?"
"We watched 'Princess Mo-no-no-kay' an' then Gin-ya showed me a video on YouTube an' said I was real smart cause I learned the song!"
The man knelt and patted Charlotte on the back. "Can you sing it for me?"
"Uh-huh!" Charlotte sang...
"There must still be the soul
That you have left behind,
Hidden somewhere,
In the deep, deep
Of the forest,
Lying among the trees..."
James clapped and smiled after she'd finished. "Bravo, Charlotte; you sing very nicely. Now, let's wake 'Gin up and get the groceries in, and I brought you a piglet for supper, so I hope you ain't spoiled your appetite snackin' on gulls again."
"Nuh-uh, Uncle James! I got plenty o' room! I'm hungry-nuff to eat a horse!"
James laughed. "One of these days Charlotte, you might just be big enough to do it, but you've still got some growin' to do for now, Face-Hugger."
"Okay!"
In Kure, shortly after the Basilisk-Incident Debriefing...
.........................................
Kaylee sat on her front porch, a drinking-horn next to her in a wooden stand carved from a cedar tree that had once grown on her grandfather's farm. She slowly, carefully ran the blade of her Green-River knife over a whetstone; Nagato had asked through Admirals Goto and Shimada for her to accompany some of the others back to Hogwarts during Spring Break, to clear the castle and to process Harry's basilisk, so the teenage Ironclad was making sure her knives were sharp.
"Gin-ya?" asked Charlotte from above her. "Chu doin'?" The acromantula had grown rapidly since her arrival in Kure, and was now the size of a large Lab puppy.
"Sharpening my knives, Charlotte. Nagato wants me to dress out the snake her boy killed." She didn't use the word 'basilisk', since the last time Charlotte had heard it the spider had panicked and hidden in the cherry tree behind Houshou's house for hours. "You're still not certified as a Working Spider yet, so you'll have to stay here with Jaw and Uncle James. Remember the rules?"
Charlotte dropped down from the porch-roof on a web. "Uh-huh. I gotta listen to Uncle James an' Cousin Jaw, an' be on my best behave-yer. Else I won't get any treats, an' you'll take Lucy away."
Kaylee smiled and sipped at the apple-cider in her horn. She'd very quickly figured out that the best punishments for Charlotte when she misbehaved was to take away her treats and the black-widow plushie that the spidering adored. The plushie was named (by James) Lucretia, but Charlotte called her Lucy.
"Tell me a story, Gin-ya? Pretty Please? With chickens on top?"
Kaylee tested the edge of her knife and called it good. "Okay; which story?"
"Tell me 'bout Rack-Knee, Gin-ya."
"Okay, Charlotte; I'll tell you the story of Arachne. A long time ago, in the city of Athens..."
......................................
When James got home, groceries on one arm and a dog-crate with a squealing piglet in it in the back-seat of the LaSalle, Kaylee was asleep in the porch swing and Charlotte bounded up to him. "Uncle James! Uncle James! Gin-ya an' me watched a cool movie an' I learned a song!"
James chuckled. "You did? What movie?"
"We watched 'Princess Mo-no-no-kay' an' then Gin-ya showed me a video on YouTube an' said I was real smart cause I learned the song!"
The man knelt and patted Charlotte on the back. "Can you sing it for me?"
"Uh-huh!" Charlotte sang...
"There must still be the soul
That you have left behind,
Hidden somewhere,
In the deep, deep
Of the forest,
Lying among the trees..."
James clapped and smiled after she'd finished. "Bravo, Charlotte; you sing very nicely. Now, let's wake 'Gin up and get the groceries in, and I brought you a piglet for supper, so I hope you ain't spoiled your appetite snackin' on gulls again."
"Nuh-uh, Uncle James! I got plenty o' room! I'm hungry-nuff to eat a horse!"
James laughed. "One of these days Charlotte, you might just be big enough to do it, but you've still got some growin' to do for now, Face-Hugger."
"Okay!"