[video] punch and judy
Apr. 11th, 2011 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maddest[Xerxes Break is combing tangles out of his little doll's hair when the whirr of the PCD alerts him to the fact that it's been turned on. The doll pipes up right away, in her irritating falsetto;]
Ow ow owowowow stop pulling!
I wouldn't have to pull if you hadn't let yourself get this tangled, Miss Emily.
[The ventriloquism is perfect. She continues;]
Help! Please! If someone on the network can hear meeee-
Don't be silly, Miss Emily, you couldn't live with anyone else. None of them would have the patience to put up with your temper or the insults you like to hurl.
Ow ow owowowow stop pulling!
I wouldn't have to pull if you hadn't let yourself get this tangled, Miss Emily.
[The ventriloquism is perfect. She continues;]
Help! Please! If someone on the network can hear meeee-
Don't be silly, Miss Emily, you couldn't live with anyone else. None of them would have the patience to put up with your temper or the insults you like to hurl.
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:17 am (UTC)No. We've, um. [Briefly, Katara shuts her eyes, as if that will help her remember.] We've talked about Jasmine tea, and the differences between white, green, and black teas. But not oolong specifically.
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:20 am (UTC)[Offering her one of the little curled, crisp leaves.]
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:22 am (UTC)[She leans into take one of the leaves with her free hand, rolling it delicately into her palm.]
Do the leaves grow like this?
[Always so full of questions.]
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:24 am (UTC)[Is all he has to say about the first question.]
No, the sun curls them as they dry and dehydrate. We put them into water that is quite hot, and they'll unfurl.
The truly unique thing about oolong is that while other teas will become weaker with each up, an oolong actually improves. The third or fourth steep is usually the best.
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:27 am (UTC)[There is nothing insulting or derogatory about her tone. Just gentle, earnest curiosity.]
Is it because of the way they're dried in the sun, do you think? And have these been steeped before? [She holds the leaf to the kitten; he gives it a polite but thoroughly disinterested sniff.]
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:30 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-04-12 04:33 am (UTC)[She offers him the leaf back.]
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:38 am (UTC)[He promises, with a nod.]
Go get the cream and sugar?
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:39 am (UTC)Alright.
[And, as promised, she retrieves them.]
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:44 am (UTC)[Offline]
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Date: 2011-04-12 05:35 am (UTC)Re: [Offline]
Date: 2011-04-12 05:42 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-04-12 05:56 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-04-13 07:18 pm (UTC)[She pauses.]
Typical Zuko.
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Date: 2011-04-14 06:43 am (UTC)[Offline]
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Date: 2011-04-14 07:24 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-04-14 09:03 pm (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-04-16 12:23 am (UTC)But if it were, he wouldn't be Zuko.
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Date: 2011-04-16 12:41 am (UTC)Is the tea ready?
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Date: 2011-04-16 11:06 pm (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-04-17 02:34 am (UTC)Break.. why do you live with us?
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Date: 2011-04-17 08:11 am (UTC)