On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:14:00 -0400 (EDT) Frederick Herriot <fherriot@yahoo.com> wrote:
"If you haven't clued into it by now, she's part-English,"
Rinrin explains. "Yotsuba-chan always tends to throw some strange
words and sayings out, even in {Nihongo : Japanese}. You can't escape it!"
"Who wrote THIS corny dialogue?!" Hiroshi tries not to gag.
Not me! Frederick did it!
"'Uo-t'ich,' Auntie Mamoru," Kaneko stifles a giggle. "It means
'dog people.' That's what we normally call the Urusians."
I'm sure that's the more polite translation. Assuming that Noukiiite put
dogs somewhere below germs on their karma scale.
Hinako blinks, then taking the Staff from Reiko, follows her
sister into the house. Ascending to where Ataru's room used to be,
they step inside. Hinako stops on seeing Ataru kneeling beside some
small glass tube on a wheel-less cart, those two nice men from the
Men in Black beside him. Jay now scans what lies in the tube with
a tricorder. Seated on the empty bunk bed Ataru once used are two
casually-dressed women, one brown-haired, the other a redhead.
The brown-haired girl looked as if she is about to break down and
cry. Her friend -- sister? -- has a reassuring hand on the other's
shoulder. Laid out on the floor by the bed are four people Hinako
recognizes from the pictures her Onii-tama once showed her {sometime : some time}
ago. All four of them are passed out, an old blanket spread out over
them. Before Hinako could think of their names, a whispered warning
from Bou-san brings her up short. *They're Avalonians?!*
the youngest sister wonders, then blinks as Chikage beckons her to
stand beside the glass tube.
Making her way through the Tomobiki farmer's market, located
close to the town {Ginza : ginza}, Tamako Momose pauses on hearing that pained
squeal. Taking the time to do a thorough visual/empathic
scan of her surroundings, the raven-haired tomboy focuses on a small
black piglet painfully staggering down a side alley. Her eyes narrow
for a moment as she focuses her mental powers on the small animal,
then they widen as she detects something that should NOT emanate
from a simple farm animal. "A boy...?" she whispers, then quickly
paying for her purchases, heads off in pursuit.