[LMB] SP: TSK:Beguilement Chapter 6

[Tzivia Adler]

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fawn is feeling a little better.  she asks dag if he has a comb, and much
hair talk ensues.   he doesn't wear his hair in a braid bec he would need
help for it, and doesn't want to ask favors.  fawn: does the supply run out?
dag:  hmmm.  maybe its just obsessive 'proving himself'.  i am suddenly
reminded of miles: when did i stop carrying the seal-dagger obsessively?

dag's comb is gap toothed as an old man.  *snicker* just how old is dag,
anyhow?  he seems to have all his teeth, if not all his fingers, despite lo
these many years of fighting.

dag tosses the comb to fawn, she misses.  dag explains how she had been able
to catch the knife, an old patroller training trick.  apparetnly lakewalker
girls are also trained to think they 'can't catch'.    fawn says the only
throwing game she played with her brothers was -throw fawn in the pond-
which was no fun in winter.  no wonder she called her brothers a plague.

later dag mentions the dead dogs.  fawn is near tears for them, though she
didn't cry for her lost baby -  maybe reaction is starting to set in.  dag
assures her that if she needs to cry out her grief, he want take it as lack
of strength.  fawn says it would make her feel -stupid-.  there's that word
again.  dag notices, too. he asks who used to hurt her with it?  fawn:  lots
of people, bec i -was- stupid.

then the story of how fawn got knocked up:  she was curious, and tired of
being the youngest, -always-.  actually, my baby sister (not such a baby,
she's applying to college) once asked my mom to have another baby so
that -she- would not always be last, and would have someone to boss around
:)

there was a handsom neighbor's sister's wedding, and fawn wanted something
romantic and wild.  'i got what i asked for but not what i wanted'   - what
a fabulous line!  stupid sunny assured her that she couln't make a baby the
first time.  did he believe that?  or was he just out for hte main chance?
fawn believed him bec no one would talk to her aobut this stuff.  she's jsut
a baby, after all...  poor baby.  (both fawn and the dead girl)
then fawn finds out sunny is engaged.  why didn't he tell her?  'everyone
knows' and besides, why should he warn a loose-morals girl like fawn?  and
if she tries to make a fuss, he'll get three friends to say she invited
them, too, bec he doesn't want to marry a dowry-less girl.  and he
accuses --her-- of having loose morals!!!  so fawn decides to leave him, and
home.  or be forever 'stupid fawn, ignore her opinions forever more'

dag:  i ought to make a drum of sunny's skin, and beat him all the time.
fawn: great idea!   -thinks- that was a joke, right?  advises, 'don't do it'

dag talks about lakewalker customs, which are pretty darn interesting, too.

dag: go back, if only to tell your family that you're OK.
fawn: the fuarther i get from sonny, the more he seems to shrink...  (think
of miles, declining to give haroche power over him, and his mental image of
haroche shrinks too.  or ekaterine:  her brother couln't have shrunk, so she
must have.... grown? :)  )

fawn realizes she has grown up.  fast.  and it hurts.  now she cries.

dag tells her to think of something beautiful, that has no reason for
existing.  they trade sweet stories.  dag has tears on his face.  fawn: 
why?  dag *prepares a half lie* but, "instead, his tounge found the truth 
entire".  its bec she made him remember the water lilys.   oh, how sweet. 
this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.  which is giving dag 
the creeps:  he knows he's way too old for her, even if she is twenty 
instead of sixteen.  somehow he can't make himself leave.  to list 
everything wrong with staying would take an hour, which... would be nice. 
no, it's a really really bad idea!  dag finally throws himself out of the 
room, to fawn's disappointment.

dag digs a grave for the dogs, one handed = slowly.  gets water from the 
well one handed, ducks his head.  water drips down his back.  (mmmm, nice!) 
fawn, busy with some mending, would like to dry him off - speaking of 
keeping one's hands busy...  hahahaha does she realize where that thought is 
taking her?  busy hands are there to keep a girl -out- of trouble, not help 
her -into- it!

fawn liked washing his hand, but that was strictly funtional, right?  of 
course.  sure.  and she liked the shape of his hand.  and the shape of his 
muscles when his shirt is off.   wonder if she saw stupid sunny w/o his 
shirt often?

here we have two people who are certainly not falling in love.  how do you 
know?  they decided not to, so it must be so!

chapter close:  men come, but not likely to be raiders (or patrollers) since 
they ahve horses, sheep, cows, and a boy with a stick.
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