doors are complicated

[campanas]

Pen' was just going to go practice singing. (She likes singing. The words are all lined up for her already and she doesn't get them wrong.) But this doesn't look like the practice room. So it's probably the magic restaurant.

Pen knows about the magic restaurant! You can go in it, and get food or things to drink (she has bracelets!) and then you just go back out the door and it's been no time at all and you're right where you went in.

She goes in. She is going to have cake.

Comments

[manofmyword]

"That's pretty big!"

[campanas]

"Yeah!"

[manofmyword]

A thought occurs to him. "Do you wanna hear some of my music?" he asks.

[campanas]

"Okay!"

[manofmyword]

He beams.

And decides to start with Queen.

[campanas]

Pen listens attentively. She has a well-trained ear and starts cooing along with some of the tune when bits of it reprise.

[manofmyword]

Cindy just sits and smiles and listens. He loves this music.

[campanas]

It seems to appeal to Pen reasonably well, too.

"Daddy auras sing this," she comments after a couple of songs have gone by.

[manofmyword]

"Auras?"

[campanas]

"Enchanty things! Mommies and daddies get them when meet others of them."

[manofmyword]

"Do they do anything besides music?"

[campanas]

"All different things!"

[manofmyword]

"Like what?"

[campanas]

"Mommy's of benevolence. Daddy's of innocence. Am not allowed seeing Juliet's, hers scary."

[manofmyword]

"There's one'a me with an aura of innocence?"

[campanas]

"Yeah! Daddy. And it sing. Mommy's do music too."

[manofmyword]

"Well, if I was gonna have an aura that sang anything, I'd want it to sing Queen," he says.

[campanas]

"It do sometimes."

[manofmyword]

"That makes me happy."

[campanas]

"Yay!"

[manofmyword]

[campanas]

Pen continues listening to the music, occasionally making little hand gestures to herself to solidify the notes in her head. "Are words writed?"

[manofmyword]

"Yeah, here," he says, and digs up the lyric sheet.

[campanas]

She starts singing along, at least insofar as the tunes have enough duplication to let her pick them up.

[manofmyword]

Normally he has mixed feelings about people singing along to Queen, but this is just adorable.