Winter Festival Arc: Part One
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“There we go!”
The screen flickered for a few moments before working again, taking one more slap before the video footage got to work. Chaya grinned. The whole Winter Festival holiday was usually awkward for her; usually, even her father and Ambrose would want her to participate, but she’d been able to squirrel herself away quickly enough.
It wasn’t that she *dis*liked hanging out with her cousins, or her uncles, but it was just… awkward. She never quite knew how to actually *do* social interactions, not when she was getting too much attention — her little cogitator project was at least something to talk about with her cousins, something that she wouldn’t get all tongue-tied and awkward about. Now, she at least hoped to find someone to-
“Chaya?”
Oh, no, *seriously?* Chaya turned as the door to her room swung open, revealing a familiar little girl: her sister, Ruth. Trailing behind her was Uncle Lorgar’s youngest grandson (she honestly wasn’t even sure if he counted as a cousin), Telemus, both holding newly-unwrapped presents.
“Chaya,” Ruth said. “Can you play with me and Telemus? I wanna play puzzle with you!”
“And then can we play trains?” Telemus added, holding up the box in his arms, a set of model trains. “Uncle Bo got this for me, but Phoebus and Circe don’t wanna play. They say trains are for babies.”
Well, *that* was certainly wrong, and Chaya knew it. She hopped off her chair, letting out a (slightly-exaggerated) sigh.
“Fine,” she said. “But promise that you won’t blame me if Dad or Uncle Lorgar find out you unwrapped gifts early?”
The two little children nodded, Ruth snatching Chaya’s hand and already dragging her off. Telemus didn’t follow immediately, though; he approached the cogitator desk, standing up on his tiptoes and looking over the strange device.
Chaya would *definitely* be mad if he messed with it. The whole set-up looked quite rare, like one of the artifacts his grandmother Elena would only let him look at, but not touch. The data-slates on her desk, on the other hand, definitely weren’t as rare. Telemus grabbed one off the desk, balancing it on the box of toy trains and hurrying off to follow Chaya and Ruth.
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