by Shieba » 12/04/2012 8:02 PM
Zeo grimaced, but also smiled behind his mask. "Yeah, he's already trying to recruit everyone into an army to tell me to allow him to have a bunny. He just has too much energy to not not, I suppose. But I think you are right - I should ask him what he thinks about getting a nursemaid and I would be grateful if you would speak to Dio about those books." He looked over again to his son and chuckled. "You're right. Children hardly have any patience, so I suppose we should free Dio from the burden to hold him back and Lelouch from the uncertainty, even though I wonder how he will react." Zeo turned towards Dio and Lelouch. "Champ, Dio, we're done here for the moment, feel free to come over!"
"Yaaaaay!" Lelouch immediately started running until he stopped in front of his father, looking back and forth between Zeo and Sa'ouna. "Bunny? Bunny? Bunny, bunny, bunny?"
Zeo had to suppress a laugh at the sight of his overly eager son while Dio walked over at a far more graceful pace. "Champ, listen to me. Sa'ouna here told me that she knows how we can maybe learn to become humans here in Evelon as well. Will it be enough if you can care for all your bunnies here as a human?"
"Noooo! Never! I want a real bunny at home that I can cuddle when I come home from school!" Lelouch insisted. "I love all my bunnies here, but I always have to ask to go to Evelon first and it's a bit away and I have to be at home first for my homework anyway, so I want a bunny there!"
Zeo paused. Obviously, Sa'ouna had been right. "You want a bunny at home because you're alone in the afternoons?" he asked.
Lelouch got a bit more quiet at that and looked at bit unhappy. "It's always so silent at home", he finally admitted. "All my friends have their Mommies or silblings waiting for them after school, but no one waits for me and you always have to work and you never marry the girls I think would make good Mommies. So I would love a bunny who waits for me! One who likes to cuddle so I can pet it and talk to it about the things that happened at school and who runs around being adorable while I do my homework!"
"Little Heart, why did you never tell your father about that?" Dio, having arrived by now, looked at Lelouch quite upset. "You never should be sad like that!"
"But I'm all grown up already, Dio!" Lelouch protested. "I can stay alone!"
"Even if you can, that doesn't mean that you have to", Zeo gently corrected. "Maybe instead of a bunny, we should try to get you a nice nursemaid who actually understands the things you might want to talk about after school instead? That's different from a babysitter - it's a nice woman who can help you with your homework or even cook food for you in the afternoons. And if she helps you and I don't have to correct your homework in the evenings, we have more time for cuddles - and maybe she can also have an eye on your room so that it might just stay tidy enough one day that a bunny can live there. So no bunny yet, but maybe someone who stays with you so that you're not lonely, okay?" Zeo nudged his son, who seemed pretty torn between agreeing and still wanting a bunny. "But I won't marry her", he then quickly added.
"Oh." Lelouch, having obviously had that idea in mind already, thought about that. "I would like someone being there", he then said. "But she has to be nice and give me huggies and like bunnies and ice-cream. And she has to be able to cook better than you!"
Dio chuckled. "That should not be too difficult", he said. "A wonderful idea, I must say. I am sure, Little Heart, that we will find someone for you that you will like."
"But I still want a bunny", Lelouch insisted. "Can't I have both?"
Zeo shook his head. "Not yet, Champ. I am aware that you care well for the bunnies here, but since Haephnes helps you a lot, I don't think you're really ready for your very own bunnies yet. I'm sure that you'll get even better at it when you're a human here, though, and if I see that you are doing better with both your room at home and things like cleaning the pens here as well, we can talk about it in a few months or so."
"Okaaaay..." Lelouch still wasn't not totally happy, but seemed at least somewhat content with the solution found. He looked at Sa'ouna. "You really know how I can be a human boy here? I'd really like to touch bunnies better in Evelon! You know a lot! Do you also know how I can get a Mommy? Or why bunnies like grass but I get a stomach-ache when I eat it?"
"Enough, Champ", Zeo laughed. "Dio, I think the magic things are more something for you."
"Indeed, Mylord." Dio looked at Sa'ouna. "Your Ladyship, I would be really grateful if you have any information about gaining human forms. I am one of the most powerful mages of our kingdom, yet I have not found any spell that helps us to switch back to what we really are in this world. Yet the one who build the gate between this world and ours told me that others from our home had already managed to gain this power - I do not know who they are, though, and therefore have to admit that I feel very lost. Because of my duties and my work, I sadly do not have enough time to hunt down the rarest of books, especially since I can only barely read many of the letters and symbols of this world. Do you happen to know of a spell that lets us change forms or at least about a place where I can gain such knowledge? Whisper Forest is sadly so very secluded that information about these things hardly ever reaches us."
I know my dreams are made of you
Of you and only for you
Your ocean pulls me under
Your voice tears me asunder
Love me before the last petal fallsHowever cold the wind and rain
I'll be there to ease your pain
However cruel the mirrors of sin
Remember beauty is found within