- The performance is over," the doppelganger announced, bowed, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Having habitually sorted through the memories I'd received, I waited until Tsumi stopped clapping and paid attention to me before repeating the question.
- First to the playground, and then to the park," she said after a moment's thought.
Who'd have thought it? That was Katsumi's thing.
- If you say so," I sighed, and taking my daughter by the hand, I led her to the first point.
As the time was already approaching nine o'clock, people gradually began to crawl out into the street, and I greeted my fellow clansmen and exchanged a few words with those of them that I knew better than what their names were and what they were doing, slowing down a short way.
Thank all gods and demons that Lynley was able to knock some decorum into that redhead, and even though she was almost vibrating with impatience, Katsumi didn't lash out and acted like a good girl, greeting everyone politely.
But when we got to the playground....
- I'm here!
A resounding shout almost deafened me, and the fidgety girl who had snatched my hand, rushed to the girls, one year old and a little older, who were clustered separately, immediately causing a joyful clamor and exclamations.
The boys, who were sitting on the grass as far away as possible from such restless neighbors and playing some game on a piece of paper, at first froze like gophers, and then fell down as they sat, diligently imitating motionless carcasses. The right action on their part - better to appear uninteresting and avoid attention than to be drawn into the noisy and moving games that Tsumi loves so much.
The parents of both sexes present, who had seen this kind of action many times before, reacted differently-if the women laughed, the fathers and grandfathers only looked sympathetically, but did not rush to help the silent calls for help from the little ones.
- They should cope with the difficulties themselves," Nara muttered, turning away from the pleading gaze of his five-year-old son, who had just fallen on the grass with his face toward him, "it will build character and allow them to survive marriage.
The men nodded affirmatively at his words. However, two of them immediately received slaps from their halves. Nara, my ass.
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