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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 6, 2008 19:40:59 GMT -5
Suzume nodded, "why does it change?" she asked, looking at he letter, "Does it look different so you can tell?" she asked, pointing to the little A and then the capital A, looking up at Brandon, obviously not catching on to the whole 'repeat after me' deal. Her eyes looked from one letter A to the other, she then looked to Brandon, then towards Breen, "Bree... you wanna help?" she asked, seeing that he had calmed down a bit. She then looked back to the letters, obviously trying to concentrate. She wasn't getting it, and already she was confused, wondering how these two symbols and two sounds made all those words, obviously not getting that there were possibly more than just the two symbols since they all pretty much looked the same to her.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 7, 2008 22:42:41 GMT -5
"Well," Brandon said as he circled the upper-case A. "This one is upper-case, and used in names or beginning of sentences. This one," he said as he circled the lower-case 'a', "is used for everything else." Brandon handed Suzume the black crayon, "You try and write them!"
Breen walked over and grabbed his one of thousands of copies of the Bible and began to read. He started at page one aka the beginning, unlike those damn Greek Epics. "I'm sure you've got it," he said as he read down the pages with blank eyes before flipping the page.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 7, 2008 22:57:58 GMT -5
Suzume took the crayon and began writing, her letters were shaky and barely legible but Suzume seemed unable to tell the difference, "Like that?" She asked, holding up the paper about three inches from Brandon's face. She spent a good deal of time on writing her A and a so she hoped she did good. In all honesty- her handwriting was crap... and her a was backwards. She had a beaming smile, though, waiting for the praise she was sure was going to come.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 8, 2008 18:57:44 GMT -5
"Your upper-case 'A' is good, but your lower-case 'a' is backwards," Brandon said, using the tactic of compliment-then-criticize for his teaching style. He grabbed another crayon and put the piece of paper back down on the table. Brandon wrote and spoke at the same time, "An 'a' is a circle," he said as he drew the loop, "And then a line down the right side," Brandon stated as he finished up his 'a'. "Try one more time, Suzume!" he said exuberantly.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 9, 2008 12:29:07 GMT -5
Suzume looked at Brandon's 'a' and then looked at Brandon, "Okay..." she drew another 'a' and looked at Brandon's, "So this side is right?" she said. She pointed to the right side of the 'a' that she had drawn and the right side of the 'a' that Brandon had drawn. Suzume hadn't been taught a lot of things that were taken for granted by people, such as left and right, how to read, what hop-scotch was, and that a spoonfull of sugar helps the medicine go down. Things like that. Suzume then began wondering why the other side was wrong, she drew another 'a' but this time it had a line on both sides, "So now both sides are right?" she asked.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 10, 2008 20:22:24 GMT -5
Breen sighed as he closed his Bible. "This will take way too long for her concern," he said as his ebony eyes glinted a bit. Breen cringed a bit, as if a rather large and cold chill began to sprint across his spine, and a bit of coal black smoke ran out of his nostrils. It raced across to Suzume and attempted to enter through her own nose. It wasn't like last time it happened, though. He was going to SUPER-TEACH! Duh Duh Da Daaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
His own soul began to subconsciously teach Suzume. Sure, she wouldn't be able to read right away, but there would be noticeable improvements in her literary abilities. Breen's face appeared a bit pale afterwards, like he was coming down with a sickness of some sort. Breen cleared his throat, "Give it a couple of days, and then you'll be able to read. But once you can, I need to see you ASAP."
"Err...okay..." Brandon said as he realized that his way was obsolete. He felt the spork in his pocket poof, and immediately his eyes became shifty. "I'll need to go now..." he said as he sprinted out of the Ninth Heaven with his Goblins going as fast as their little legs could take them.
"So, I guess you can go out and play or whatever it is that you kids do nowadays," Breen said as he began to shrug off the obvious pain of splitting your soul...again. Some color began to show itself again, but it was barely noticeable. "I'm just going to catch up on some reading," he said as he pulled a book. It seemed to be some lore written about demons in some other language.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 11, 2008 8:31:12 GMT -5
Suzume waved goodbye to Brandon before turning to Breen, "Can you read to me?" she asked, her turquoise eyes wide. Her expression made it obvious that she didn't think Breen could possibly say no to her. She had a big smile on her face and her ears twitched slightly, her tail swishing back and forth in a pleasant manner, the slightest 'swshh swshh' of her tail sweeping on the floor. "What's the book about?" she asked, perhaps it was a one of those stories like 'Little Red Riding Hood.'
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Post by demonfire on Mar 11, 2008 14:17:28 GMT -5
"Well of course I could read to you," Breen said as he looked up from the odd book. Come to think of it, the book didn't seem all that like your run-of-the-mill odd book. The binding seemed a bit like old and wrinkled leather, and had quite the foreboding odor to it. The writing on the cover was a crimson red and seemed flaky.
"This book is on various, higher-up demons. I'm going to send their souls to a point of un-existence. Just where their evil souls belong," he said with malice in his voice.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 11, 2008 14:47:04 GMT -5
Suzume looked at the book with increased curiosity, "That's a funny name for a book." she reached to pick the book from Breen's hands so she could look at it, her eyes wide with the innocent wonder of a child, "Does it have a happy ending?" she asked, wondering if there was a princess in this book or something, a smile on her face as she kept careful watch on her fire abilities, seeing as they acted up when she got overly excited, scared, or curious. She bit her lips slightly, wondering when Breen would start reading the story. She was still trying to take the book from Breen so she could look at it, though.
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Post by demonfire on Mar 13, 2008 18:09:53 GMT -5
Breen firmly but gently removed the book from Suzume's grip, as to not damage it by the clumsy hands of a child. He really didn't know if there were any other copies, and copying it by hand would be a real pain in the ass. Even more so if he had to do it by memory.
"It doesn't have what you would call a 'happy ending' ((bowchickabowwow)). This book is nonfiction. It's about real things and lists information, facts, strengths, weaknesses, etc," he said as he continued to read the page, not really phased by speaking to Suzume, preventing the book to be taken by Suzume, and reading all at once. Breen has mad multitasking skills.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 15, 2008 9:12:12 GMT -5
Suzume nodded, "Oh... okay..." She guessed she wasn't wanted here, then. "I'll just go find someone to play with, I guess." She nodded, looking up at Breen for a few moments before pausing, "Breen... can I ask you a question?" she figured it would be okay so despite the fact that she asked permission to ask her question, she went ahead anyways and asked, "Which god is 'I Am' because I don't get it..." she really didn't get it much at all and she really hoped Breen wouldn't get all angry again.
If Breen had any tact he'd recognise his perfect moment right here to make a valiant attempt at converting the little heathen child, but Li-Wa figured Breen was too much of a hothead to even try something on THAT level of intelligence. But who knew? Li-Wa's been wrong before...
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Post by demonfire on Mar 15, 2008 10:10:19 GMT -5
"The one True God. Moses referred to him by the one who goes by 'I Am' to the Egyptian Pharaoh while the Israelites were in slavery," Breen said as he continued reading the book. The demon slayer quickly closed the book between his index finger and thumb. Breen placed the old, human-made book down and grabbed the copy of the Bible he gave Suzume before. "When you can read it, read it. It will explain a lot of things," he said with a Converter-Smile on his face.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Mar 15, 2008 14:45:28 GMT -5
Suzume had never heard of any Pharoh or of any Israelites before... and so she figured that asking questions would only make things more confusing... so she just carried the Bible with her as she left Mr. Bree there to read his book. She looked rather dazed, not really knowing much at all what she had been told about the Bible or this odd 'I Am' that Mr. Bree liked so much. She let out a sigh that seemed to let the world know that she kinda just wasted a good few minutes because 'Them' was still out there, she still didn't know how to read, and she didn't figure out who Bree's god was... but she was sure it wasn't Inari...
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