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Post by demonfire on Mar 4, 2008 18:10:07 GMT -5
Breen stood up straight. He looked at the bird. In the empty eyes the bird could see the signal 'As you were' flashed over and over again, as if a subliminal message. Breen had that effect on people...or at least birds that were semi-possessed by him that were pretty much bound to his will. Yeah...that.
"Yeah, why you be askin'?" Brandon said to Suzume. In his three-second attention span he forgot about the Demon Bird aka Mango as he focused on Suzume and her mind-boggling question. Everyone who could talk in his homeland could read...even if a little, so the question seemed to perplex him a bit.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 4, 2008 19:22:32 GMT -5
"Because I don't... and I wanna learn..." She nodded at Brandon, as if it was perfectly reasonable, not really seeing it as so much of a rare thing, but she wondered where Brandon learned to read, she also wondered how good at reading he was, she wanted to hear him read. Did this mean Brandon was an important person? She looked towards Breen, about to ask if he could read, but she figured he probably couldn't. Breen wasn't superbrave or super special like BRandon... Breen knew magic tricks, though. But that was probably it.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 4, 2008 20:05:12 GMT -5
"You don't know? But don't you learn this stuff in kindergarten? Where are you from, North Korea or summin'?" Brandon asked quizzically, not really expecting Suzume to not know how to read, as stated before.
"But I don't have any books here!" Brandon said as if he already knew the answer to his own question. He frantically searched around for reading material, even trying to pick up Box and Pocket during their new discussion on Mendelian Genetics, which regardless to say disrupted them greatly.
Breen took out the now clean handkerchief once more and placed it over Suzume's head. When he removed it, there was a condensed copy of the Holy Bible. "I expect to have it back in the same condition it is now in," Breen said as he grabbed the book and placed it in Suzume's hands. "Now, the Good Book is the one that taught me how to read, and I expect it will do the same for you," Breen said while Brandon still looked for a book. He was ignorant as to the fact that Breen might have a copy of the Bible around. A guy like him? Of Course!
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 4, 2008 20:14:40 GMT -5
Suzume looked at the scribbles on the book, looking from Brandon to Breen, "What is it? And what makes it so good?" she asked, she knew it was a book, but she wanted to know what book it was because she honestly had no clue. It had pretty gold letters on the front, though. She smiled as she looked at the shiny letters. She opened it up and looked inside, "There aren't many pictures, are there? There's just a lot of really little scribbles..." she nodded, there were only two things Suzume could write on her own, her first name and her last name. Otherwise she needed help. She couldn't read anything but her name, either. She looked towards Brandon, as if awaiting him to offer to teach her how to read the next second... aaaand now!... she waited for the offer.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 4, 2008 20:58:21 GMT -5
"This is the Holy Bible, Suzume. It proclaims God's Word to all," Breen said with a voice like that of a kindergarten CCD teacher. Breen seemed kind when he talked about God with no intent to 'cleanse'.
Brandon pushed Breen aside like he knew everything there was to know about the Book. "The Bible is a big, important person book. That's why there's so many words in it and no pictures," he said with an I-know-everything smile. "You wanna learn how to read it?" Brandon asked scholarly to Suzume.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 4, 2008 21:11:12 GMT -5
"Uhhh..." Suzume looked at the book now, half amazed and half worried. "I guess..." the two made the book sound rather intimidating but she didn't say it, she just nodded, "But which god is it?" she asked, a bit confused, perhaps Izinagi. She wasn't sure, but she hadn't heard of the book before, she let her eyes move over the pages, completely unaware she was looking at it upside down. She looked up at Brandon and then to Breen, expecting an answer, because it had to be some god, right? Perhaps Inari... she knew alot about Inari! He was the god who looked over kitsunes like herself! Suzume hoped it was Inari, she might actually enjoy the book she guessed. She liked it when people read to her, but who knew, perhaps reading on your own would be more difficult or less fun. She didn't know.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 4, 2008 21:19:38 GMT -5
"Which god? Why the God, of course. The Heavenly Creator of all!" Breen said, restricting himself from a blinding rage from such blasphemous remarks. Which god? What kind of mockery was this. Perhaps the only emotion possible to exhibit from his coal eyes was now showing itself: anger.
"Err...yeah...I think Mr. Bree is a bit angry..." Brandon said as he lowered himself and scurried next to Suzume when he heard Breen's outburst. "But hey! At least we have a book!" Brandon said to try and relieve the tension.
Breen's vessel's chest heaved up and down as he contained the beast of rage within. Such Blasphemy!
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 4, 2008 21:34:35 GMT -5
"So it is about Izinagi?" she asked Brandon, genuinely confused why Breen was so angry, after all, Izinagi was the one who created the world, like the fish that splashed the water and pushed it away from the land so Izinagi's people would have somewhere to live. She nodded, "So when do I start reading?" she asked, looking up at Brandon with wide eyes, just waiting for when she'd be able to read and then she'd be important, too. She made note to keep Brandon between herself and Bree, in case something bad happened, maybe Bree was sick, just like Mango.
Speaking of Mango. The little bird was shreiking something dreadful, it's feathers ruffled and it's wings flapping wildly, obviously Breen's emotions very directly effected it. Suzume tried to ignore it but an angry bird in your ear got kinda hard to ignore really quickly.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 4, 2008 21:54:50 GMT -5
"No! It is about God! He who goes by 'I Am'!" Breen continued to say in his angry rant about the apparently heathen Suzume. His vessel's mouth scowled in anger. Really, what was Izinagi? Some childhood coping mechanism? There was only one God to Breen; he wasn't too fond on the whole polytheistic concept of worship.
Brandon took Suzume away from the crazy Breen and brought her to a table that hadn't been overturned by their previous endeavors to make a fort against 'Them'. "Well first...ya gotta know all the letter sounds!" Brandon said as he patted down his pockets for a pen, and appeared disdained when he couldn't find one. "Uhhh...do you have a pen or pencil I could borrow?" he asked Suzume. It was like right before the big test with a greedy teacher who hoarded writing instruments and you had none left. Really.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 5, 2008 17:00:51 GMT -5
"My crayons are still over there... " she pointed towards the table where the whole crazy fiasco began as she wondered why Bree was getting so angry, "Brandon... what's he talking about? There aren't any gods in all of Shinto who call themselves 'I Am' that's just... silly." she had no clue that Bree was talking about a different religion because the thought of anyone practicing anything other than Shinto seemed so... oddly wrong to her. Her black tail swayed back and forth as she dashed to the crayons, bringing the whole container back with her, "I have every color you can think of... except green... it's missing." She nodded, wanting to sit down at the table where hopefully Bree wouldn't yell at her anymore.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 5, 2008 17:18:24 GMT -5
"He's talkin' 'bout Christianity...probably Catholicism..." Brandon said. "Y'see...God is the big dog in those religions," he said in a quiet voice, almost completely opposite of Breen's attempt to explain it.
"Wait...what's Shinto?" Brandon asked with a quizzical expression on his face, knowing about as much of the Japanese religion as Suzume knew about the Abrahamic ones. He knew his Christianity: be a good boy, fight for justice against 'Them', and you'll go to Heaven.
"Green...green...green..." Brandon said as he looked through the box in some futile effort to find the missing hue. No green? 'Them'...
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 5, 2008 17:58:33 GMT -5
"Shinto is with all the gods like Izinagi and Amaterasu and Inari and everyone else..." She nodded, not really explaining all that much because she thought everyone knew what it was. "Why's Bree so upset about it?" she asked, obviously quite misinterpereting a mighty few things in the conversation. But she was so little, and therefor inherently adorable that you couldn't possibly get angry with her, unless your name was Breen and you were an illiterate poopyhead. Then you could get mad, but that was just Breen.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 5, 2008 21:36:17 GMT -5
"Yeah...I think he's like one of those guys that is all like, 'Woah Man! My religion is the right one!' or summin' like that," Brandon said, nodding. He moved around things to make it neat and tidy. Brandon looked in vain to find a piece of paper, only to have a disappointed expression on his face when he saw none. "Do we have any paper?" he asked Suzume, really hoping she had some extra paper. It was never good to write in the Bible.
Breen pushed a stray strand of hair back as the once surmounting rage began to subside. If he got mad at her and went on some 'Tarth-like' killing spree, because if he were to kill the girl, Hell on Earth was the reaction. That was the thing he was trying to prevent, so that would be bad. Yes...bad...
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 5, 2008 22:11:51 GMT -5
Suzume ran back to the table and grabbed the paper, pausing before she passed Breen, "Ummm... Bree..." She looked up at him uncertainly, "Gomenasai..." she did a quick bow before darting over to Brandon, setting the paper down on the table, now that she had told Breen she was sorry, she had to get to learnin'! Because she had to read so she could be important and help everyone back home. "Brandon... when did you learn to read and how long does it take?" she honestly expected to be reading at a college level before she left the Ninth Heaven today, she didn't realize how rediculous of a goal this was.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 6, 2008 15:30:01 GMT -5
"I learned to read a long time ago. It can take a while, depending on how much you study them," Brandon said in a teacherly way. He grabbed a black crayon from the box and began to write letters on the page. His penmanship was average, and he was trying even harder to make it neater for his student. On the paper was 'Aa'. "That's the letter A. It's short sound is 'ah' like apple, and it's long sound is 'ay' like in hay," Brandon said, expecting Suzume to repeat the sounds.
Breen went back to neutral after the apology; although, knowing Suzume was a heathen certainly complicates things for the Roman Catholic. He muttered something, with only the words 'converting' and 'Christian' audible to the ear.
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