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It's a natural sort of thing, of course, to be worried. It's entirely regular and completely normal.

And the Eichelns are, after all, an entirely regular and completely normal family. Charles is an entirely normal number of years older than his wife. Lorraine has given him, after all, a completely regular number of sons spaced at appropriate intervals. The boys are growing tall and bright and beyond the pale exactly the sort of children any Clubs family would be proud to smooth down the hair of and call their own.

So being worried as her eldest's twelfth birthday draws near is just an extension of that normalcy. It would have been far more odd if Lorraine wasn't worried that Edgar wouldn't throw himself with absolute immediacy--still so much a child in her eyes, still so much the little boy she felt she'd held swaddled in her arms just a heartbeat ago--into the sort of Challenges which had been known, on occasion, to take good Club boys away from their mothers and fathers and brothers.

If anyone, therefore, happened to be looking for her on the first chilly day toward the end of August, they would find Lorraine Eicheln baking rather purposefully in the Clubs kitchen.

Date: 2014-06-01 01:07 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (as if)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
Rachel isn't looking for her, exactly. She's looking more for snack she and Argine can use as they play at tea time. It just so happens that her wandering into the kitchen coincides with the older woman baking in the Clubs kitchen.

She can't quite dip into a respectful bob of the head, but she tries, "Hello, Mrs. Eicheln."

Date: 2014-06-01 04:33 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"Argine and I are having tea, ma'am," she says with a prim sort of respect but a bright smile, "She sent me t'see if I could find anything for us to eat."

Date: 2014-06-01 05:18 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (all dressed up)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
She can't help the excited little bounce that comes in automatic reaction that, before the decorum her parents have been trying to drill into her takes charge again.

"--That'd be lovely. If you're certain, I mean."

Date: 2014-06-01 02:07 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"No, ma'am."

Said with a wry grin as she imagines the thought. The Eicheln boys (and Andrew, when he's with them) are rambunctious enough as is. Them on dozens of cookies would be even worse.

Date: 2014-06-01 03:17 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (Default)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"I'm well, ma'am. Thank you."

It's polite as it should be, but there's a hint of an easier candidness that lies beneath it.

"How're you?"

Date: 2014-06-01 04:20 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (no diamond mask)
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Well. That gets her pausing tentatively.

"I apologize for interrupting, then."

Date: 2014-06-01 04:33 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (Default)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"If you're certain."

And the thought isn't one she understands, yet, but she can at least accept it when she's reaching out so kindly.

Date: 2014-06-01 04:50 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (all dressed up)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
Her words have the young girl grinning as she goes off to grab the spatula.

"Thank you, ma'am."

Date: 2014-06-02 01:55 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"All right," she says cheerfully, flopping into a seat as she waits, "'s going pretty well. I really like the stuff we're learning in science about space."

Date: 2014-06-02 02:33 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
A bright little laugh, "That'd be cool. But 've got things I'd rather do here."

Date: 2014-06-02 02:58 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"I wanna be an Ace," she says, with the bright optimism of a child who still believes in the impossible, "Papa says being a Face runs in the family, 'nd I like that one best."

Date: 2014-06-02 03:29 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (all dressed up)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"Doesn' seem as hard 's being a Queen," she replies, "And 's just cooler."

And maybe the job isn't entirely something she understands at this point, but she'll learn.
Edited Date: 2014-06-02 03:31 am (UTC)

Date: 2014-06-02 03:45 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"I guess not really."

It's going to be hard, after all, getting that high up in the first place.

"'s just don't want to be having to do work stuff all the time. Seems boring."

Date: 2014-06-02 04:06 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (looking up)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"Yes'm," comes the obedient response, although it's not really advice she'll learn to internalize for a long while yet.

Date: 2014-06-02 02:19 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (a joy revealed)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
And she'll start to learn it, eventually. She'll start to understand why it's such an important lesson to learn.

A thoughtful hum, "Maybe a dozen? 'f that's all right?"

Date: 2014-06-02 02:43 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (a joy revealed)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"I guess we could get more," she admits after a moment, "Two dozen?"

Any more and both her mother and Argine's would likely fuss about a possibly wasted dinner.

Date: 2014-06-02 04:42 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (amused)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
"Yes'm." So she'll be hopping off her chair to snag a plate and bring it over, "Thank you again."

Date: 2014-06-03 03:22 am (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (all dressed up)
From: [personal profile] theunpressuredclub
A surprised but positively bright little grin.

"I'd like that. I'll ask 'gine if she would, too."

Date: 2014-06-03 01:32 pm (UTC)
theunpressuredclub: (Default)
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"Yes, ma'am."

She clearly sounds like she's looking forward to it, whether in the company of one of the boys or not.

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