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River’s Way, chapter 2
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They ate for a while in silence, until Kaylee caught River watching her in that certain way again. So, she just decided to watch right back at her this time, see what happened.
River seemed a little surprised by this, but kept looking back into her eyes, for a while at least, before she blushed a little and looked away again, getting up and saying she needed to go relieve herself.
Kaylee just nodded okay and sat there, eating the last bits of her food and trying to work something out in her head, she wasn’t quite sure what.
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That night, Kaylee was still thinking as she got into bed beside an already sleepy River.
”River…” She started to ask something, she wasn’t sure what.
”Hmm?” River replied.
”You think we’re… you think, if it’s just us here, we’ll be okay. Long term I mean?” She asked.
”Mmm?” River opened her eyes and Kaylee turned her head so their eyes met. ”I’ll protect you.” River told her simply. ”I’m scary girl, remember?” She said.
Kaylee swallowed and smiled, kissing River on the forehead. ”Okay then.” She said. ”Time to sleep I guess…” She said.
”…Kaylee?” River asked.
”Yeah?”
”Don’t make breakfast again, okay?” River asked.
”What? Food I made was really that bad?” She asked. ”Well, guess a’ can’t fault you your honesty, now can I?” She smiled a little to herself, having mixed feelings about the whole thing.
”Not that.” River corrected.
”What then?” Kaylee asked.
”…you keep bad dreams away. It’s more valuable than tofu.” River explained.
”Oh…” Kaylee said.
”Tired… sleep…” River said.
Kaylee looked over and River was already asleep apparently.
”…Pleasant dreams then…” She touched her friend’s hair a little and smiled to herself, snuggling in under the covers and closing her eyes. Somehow proud of herself now. Despite knowin’ she prob’ly had no real cause to be.
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The day after next River and Kaylee were in the woods, just exploring around, basically because they were bored and there wasn’t much else to do. And River seemed to like exploring. Kaylee didn’t really care for the woods as much as River seemed to, but she did kind of like to go along because River made it fun anyway. Always investigating this or that, explaining what she thought about birds or wondering why squirrels acted the way they did.
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I think I’d prefer the translations in the text – makes better sense to know right off !
Re-read the first chapter so’s I know I didn’t miss anything. Enjoying all the pages – all the words! Never saw the show. So it’s all new to my head. ;)
I’m really happy you’ve liked it so well so far :)
I’ve gone back and forth about the translations thing myself. It’s more authentic to have it in the back is why I did it that way. In the show, the characters just say the Chinese stuff, they never provided subtitles for it. Still, I’ve waffled on my decision several times, I don’t know (feeling very indecisive about it now u_u )