Page 90 of Culture and Curiosities
He sighed.
“Reminding me of your love is cheating, my mate.”
Nope.
But Daddy needed another distraction, not logic, so I bounced closer like a squirrel and peeked in my bag.
My toys.
It was Daddy’s turn to make a happy sound in his head as he nodded. “Yes, we’re ready for bathtime.”
Daddy too.
He even gave an outside smile to my little bag of water toys.
I had them in a special bag like my camping plate stuff had so they would dry good when I played with them in lakes and stuff.
As he opened my bag, I grabbed my monster and held it up.
Daddy’s eyes got big. “My mate, are those real animals from Earth or imagination ones like in the fiction books?”
Klynn found monster books.
Wiggling my tentacle monster, I tried to look happy and not naughty, but Daddy sighed. “Fiction. Thank the dragons above.”
Daddy didn’t like monsters with tentacles.
“Earth does strange things to imaginations.” Daddy looked into the bag and made another big sigh sound when he just saw regular animals. He picked out my whale and turned it over in his hand. “Are these small fish or large ones?”
I showed Daddy a picture from a science movie and his eyes got bigger-bigger as he turned on the tub water. “Great dragons above.”
Showing Daddy hearts and flowers around the big whale had him relaxing and frowning. “They’re nice? Something that big?”
Hmm.
I put all the Daddies I knew from the town into the water with the whale and Daddy out loud laughed as he went back to the counter and grabbed my bubble stuff out of my bag. “They’re the Daddies of the ocean? Alright, that would make a difference.”
Nodding, I bounced and wiggled as Daddy put my toys and bubble stuff in the water. Bigger bigger bigger.
Hmm.
I gave Daddy the question marks again.
“What am I doing?” Daddy pointed to the water where he’d just done magicy stuff. “I’m just making sure the bubbles don’t fade until I’m ready and that the water stays warm.”
Wow.
Daddy looked confused. “You don’t do that either?”
No.
Glancing between me and the tub, Daddy shrugged. “I don’t even begin to know where to start because there are so many things we do differently. I usually assume it is because you dothings like humans to blend in, but I’m starting to realize that it is a lack of knowledge.”
Yep.
“Even realizing that, I don’t know where to start, so you will have to let me know when something is not familiar.” Daddy frowned as he waved his hand down me and my clothes went poof. “I’ll do my best to ask more questions instead of just assuming human differences.”
We were different, but yeah, Daddy did stuff we couldn’t.
