The fidgeting stopped when she wasn't told off. Instead the frail fawn stared in unabashed admiration at the dangling chain, its golden links gleaming and reflecting in her one good eye even through the dusk of the bamboo forest.
"It's so pretty" she breathed, looking awestruck. "But why do you wear it? Did your ma tell you to?"
But formalities did not tolerate waiting any longer. The maiden introduced herself and the child had to save her questions for later, bound by common decency, as mother called it, to reply.
"Hi, Rexanna, it is nice to meet you" she chanted, in the droning voice used when repeating something learned by heart. "My name is Er.. Erttte.. Ere, I am two weeks old - soon three!" It was a bit embarrassing to not even be able to say her own name right, but she had trouble with those lisping sounds. Couldn't da have given her some easier to say name? Like.. like Vlasi... but no, that wasn't very easy to say either.
There, now formalities are over, right? With all the patience of running water she looked from Rex to the Moon Lady and back, with a rather smug and secretive look on her face.
"Do you know who that is? It's the Moon! I thought the moon was white but Mom said that's the moon goddess... How does that work?" The young brow furrowed in through, and rather absentminded she shifted her stance so that the painful sores on her legs wouldn't rub against one another.
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