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"So," wonders Blair, a little over a week later, "how attached are you two to the house?"
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"But you're not practiced at putting them together! Don't you want to show Blair how you can read all on your own when he gets back with books?"
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Alexei blinks out of his confusion when he hears his mate talk about teaching the UPSETTINGLY SMALL PERSON how to read.
It occurs to him he doesn't know how.
He's... having some sort of emotion about this but he's not sure what it is.
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Yvette, not being a mind reader and furthermore having a Mission to Accomplish, has no idea! But she gives Alexei's hand another kiss and then zips off to retrieve paper and a pencil so Aurene can grumpily practice her letters.
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Grumble, grumble, okay fine she'll write out the whole alphabet, she guesses.
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James... is not a mind reader but he likes to pride himself in being a person reader. Somewhat.
"Alexei? Are you alright?" he asks, at a dhampir-undetectable pitch.
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Conversation to be had when he is not currently overwhelmed by their child, that's fair. Somehow it didn't occur to him that "conversation" might be something he'd want to do during the eight hours Aurene was asleep for.
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This Yvette notices: she looks up from teaching Aurene to give Alexei a concerned look, then says (also at a dhampir-undetectable pitch), "Love you, darling."
And then it is back to wrestling psychologically with her child to get some kind of an education into her supernaturally developing young mind! Letters. They go together, and sometimes they make sounds that don't make logical sense when that happens! Isn't English fun?
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But soon Aurene will be able to write her own name! And see, it has lots of the weird doesn't-sound-like-it-looks in it!
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"Spelling is stupid and I hate it," declares Aurene when she compares the correct spelling of her own name to what she thinks it should be. "Why did you have to use fake letters in my name."
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"MNRH!"
Nope it is no longer letters time, it is pouting time. How dare he bring 'logic' into this.
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Yvette sighs, but doesn't push this time. This is kind of just how education sessions go, at least without proper books to read to her to make it more fun. Which Blair will show up with... at some point.
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Their poor, sad, hard-done-by daughter.
"Do you want to run to the lake and see who can make the biggest splash?" he suggests.
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".... Yeh!!!" she says, mostly because running and splashing are fun.
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"Oh, that'd be a good place for me to finish your ring, so I don't have to spend ages wrestling with air," says Yvette, brightly.
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She beams at him, and then they can all go out on a trip to the lake. It's a bit of a run, but perfectly doable as a day trip for vampires, and one easily carried dhampir.