Post by Asunara Wisdom on Sept 9, 2013 10:12:07 GMT -8
MISSO HAVE FUN.
{Vash and Lili}She was about 10 when she posed the question. He was a youth at 16. What an inquisitive child she was. An embarrassingly inquisitive child. In fact, he hadn't expected to be posed the question. He expected her to ask their parents.
"Bruder, daddy asked me to ask you to give me a 'talk', whatever that means."
Why?
"Why are you asking me this, schwester?" he asked. She appeared childish in appearance still, young looking for her age, not even close to developing breasts. She was flat as a board, and he had trouble imagining her looking like a woman. Not that he tried to imagine that often.
"I'm curious and I don't think Father would want to answer..." she said. Now then, that was a bit reasonable. Asking Father would have been even worse, anyways. Asking Mother would probably be a bit of a prospect all on its own. He sighed.
Fine. So be it he be the person who would partially take away some of her innocence. Now for an analogy...
"So you know cheese, yes?"
She nodded, staring at him with great curiosity.
"When a goat is happy, he makes cheese. Goats love to give milk, but not all of that milk makes cheese. In fact, if all the milk that goats made was made into cheese, the world won't be able to take that much cheese," he said, hoping she would catch onto the analogy here.
"But the more cheese, the merrier. Then everyone in the world could eat and then people will never go hungry."
"Well... that can get very complicated. To make good cheese, you need to find a good place to store it and age it before it's edible. Or else you just have milk everywhere, and that would just spoil and it won't be fun to clean up."
"So, Vash, all of your cheese are actually made by the goats?"
"Cows also make cheese, but the cheese that is the most productive is goat cheese. Keep in mind you need a good place to store it! Cheese takes a long time to make, you need to give it 9 months. If it takes too long to make the cheese, you need to get it checked by a good farmer."
"Making cheese sounds fun and difficult. Can I see the goats and cows when they are making cheese?" she asked, her voice lit up at the prospect of going with her brother to go watch cheese production.
"T-there are videos, but I don't think it's appropriate. The goats and cows would be very embarrassed and ashamed since cheesemaking is a private affair!" he replied, his face reddening as she tilted her head to that question.
"But I want to help them, so I will more appreciate their cheese. And why would they feel ashamed if I'm watching?"
"Because wouldn't you feel ashamed if someone was watching you make cheese? I would feel very, very ashamed if someone even CAUGHT me making cheese! Cheesemaking is a very private affair, you will learn that, schwester..."
He couldn't look at the cheese platter at dinner seriously after that.
"Bruder, daddy asked me to ask you to give me a 'talk', whatever that means."
Why?
"Why are you asking me this, schwester?" he asked. She appeared childish in appearance still, young looking for her age, not even close to developing breasts. She was flat as a board, and he had trouble imagining her looking like a woman. Not that he tried to imagine that often.
"I'm curious and I don't think Father would want to answer..." she said. Now then, that was a bit reasonable. Asking Father would have been even worse, anyways. Asking Mother would probably be a bit of a prospect all on its own. He sighed.
Fine. So be it he be the person who would partially take away some of her innocence. Now for an analogy...
"So you know cheese, yes?"
She nodded, staring at him with great curiosity.
"When a goat is happy, he makes cheese. Goats love to give milk, but not all of that milk makes cheese. In fact, if all the milk that goats made was made into cheese, the world won't be able to take that much cheese," he said, hoping she would catch onto the analogy here.
"But the more cheese, the merrier. Then everyone in the world could eat and then people will never go hungry."
"Well... that can get very complicated. To make good cheese, you need to find a good place to store it and age it before it's edible. Or else you just have milk everywhere, and that would just spoil and it won't be fun to clean up."
"So, Vash, all of your cheese are actually made by the goats?"
"Cows also make cheese, but the cheese that is the most productive is goat cheese. Keep in mind you need a good place to store it! Cheese takes a long time to make, you need to give it 9 months. If it takes too long to make the cheese, you need to get it checked by a good farmer."
"Making cheese sounds fun and difficult. Can I see the goats and cows when they are making cheese?" she asked, her voice lit up at the prospect of going with her brother to go watch cheese production.
"T-there are videos, but I don't think it's appropriate. The goats and cows would be very embarrassed and ashamed since cheesemaking is a private affair!" he replied, his face reddening as she tilted her head to that question.
"But I want to help them, so I will more appreciate their cheese. And why would they feel ashamed if I'm watching?"
"Because wouldn't you feel ashamed if someone was watching you make cheese? I would feel very, very ashamed if someone even CAUGHT me making cheese! Cheesemaking is a very private affair, you will learn that, schwester..."
He couldn't look at the cheese platter at dinner seriously after that.
{Like Mother Like Daughter?}"Ails, I need ta tell ya something. I think you're the right age," Donald said, brimming in paternal glory. Time to do this right before she decides to head off into the wrong direction like he had quite a while back. And might as well do it... with some Irish style.
"Ye?"
"So you know that there is a pot at the end of a rainbow? And then there is usually gold... or potatoes! Let's go with potatoes for this one. The thing is, the pot won't have potatoes if you don't have a rainbow. And if you have too many potatoes, that isn't good. So sometimes, you just have to avoid the rainbow because too many potatoes is bad, or you'll have a stomach ache and all the potatoes would go bad and that would be bad and..."
"Dad?"
"Any questions so far?"
"Auntie Aoife already told me all this. And she demonstrated. With a banana and a doughnut. And two potatoes."
"...Oh."
"Ye?"
"So you know that there is a pot at the end of a rainbow? And then there is usually gold... or potatoes! Let's go with potatoes for this one. The thing is, the pot won't have potatoes if you don't have a rainbow. And if you have too many potatoes, that isn't good. So sometimes, you just have to avoid the rainbow because too many potatoes is bad, or you'll have a stomach ache and all the potatoes would go bad and that would be bad and..."
"Dad?"
"Any questions so far?"
"Auntie Aoife already told me all this. And she demonstrated. With a banana and a doughnut. And two potatoes."
"...Oh."
