Francisca was sitting in one of the rooms in the dance studio. She has joined a dance studio a few asleep after they moved to Bologna mostly because her parents wanted her to try a few things especially with her not being able to start hockey till the next season.
Francisca was quite good at dancing for her age and it seemed to make quite a bit of a good difference when she goes on the ice now.
Grace was taking a few things out of the makeup bag to start getting her four year old ready.
Lorenzo walked in headed over to his girls and Francisca smiled at him immediately, “Can Papa do my hair?”
Grace smiled at her question, “Of course he can.” Grace had made sure Lorenzo knew how to do their daughter’s hair which he wanted to know how to do and he picked it up very quickly.
Lorenzo started on her hair as Grace did the most minimal makeup, a little sparkle eye shadow, blush and lipstick. Simple and what Francisca’s group was wearing.
Lorenzo twirled her hair into a bun gently pinning the bun and kissing the top of her head once he was done.
“Grazie Papa!” Francisca smiled at her Dad before turning to her Mom, “Thank you Mama.”
Grace and Lorenzo walked with Francisca to her group and they kneeled down in front of her.
“You’ll be perfect and if you’re nervous you find us in the group okay.” Grace softly spoke.
“Have fun my Principessa.” Lorenzo mumbled against his forehead gently kissing her head.
Francisca just smiled not looking at all worried about her first ever performance of any kind. She watched her parents walk away.
Grace and Lorenzo headed to the seats where the Antonelli’s were sitting. Grace sat down next to Veronica with Lorenzo next to her and Kimi was next to him with Marco next to him. Kimi had asked to sit next to Lorenzo.
“Was she adorable?” Veronica asked Grace who has quickly become her best friend and Grace for the first time has a girl best friend.
“Absolutely precious.” Grace nodded with a soft look. Francisca looked adorable in her very large tutu and sparkly leotard.
The curtains pulled back the recital started.
Grace immediately gasped softly smiling seeing how adorable her daughter looking on the stage.
Francisca had an easy smile on her little face as she did her routine.
Kimi’s very tiny jaw drooped as he looked at his best friend with a dreamy smile. She looks like a princess even more than usually as she twirled around in her large tutu.
Lorenzo sniffled a bit making Grace glance over seeing Lorenzo wiping under his eyes, “Tears Enzo?” Grace didn’t look at him as she teased him with her eyes glued on their daughter.
“She looks adorable.” Lorenzo protested with a small watery smile, “She was just crawling and chewing on pucks last week.” It felt like every single time he blinks his only child grows more and more and whole he was so happy and proud it made his Dad heart sad.
“That she was.” Grace sighed bittersweet as she agreed with her husband.
“And she starts school in a few months.” Lorenzo sighed as he whispered back he couldn’t believe they were getting close to having a five year old soon.
“I know.” Grace whispered back understanding completely as she intertwined their hands softly squeezing his hand and leaning on his shoulder as they kept their eyes glued to Francisca still dancing.
Grace could tell the passionate love Francisca already has for hockey is not a love she shared for dance.
Francisca seems to like dancing and it’s something she is fine with doing but she longs to be on the ice or playing some type of hockey every moment. It made Grace happy and sad to have her daughter have the same love for hockey as she once did but also sad and worried that one day Francisca would loose that love because of something.
Francisca did a little bow as the dance ended and claps started. She waved at her family seeing them all sitting together.
Kimi pressed a kiss to his hand before pushing his hands toward Francisca making her giggle at his actions. It would be the first kiss one of them blew to the other but definitely not the last.
Francisca softly walked out of the room seeing her family all waiting for her. Lorenzo immediately picked her up spinning her around softly making Francisca laugh and squeal a bit.
“My Star you were beautiful.” Grace cupped Francisca’s little face smothering her with kisses as Lorenzo held their daughter making Francisca giggle.
“For you Stella.” Lorenzo said softly setting her back down and Grace handed her a large bouquet with orange and yellow tulips.
“Pretty.” Francisca smiled at the flowers before glancing over seeing Kimi waiting holding a smaller bouquet of flowers, “Andy!”
“Bella!” Kimi rushed over smooshing her into a hug before he pulled back and pressed a quick kiss to her cheek making Lorenzo sigh.
“Here! Gracie helped me!” Kimi beamed handed a smaller bouquet of pink peonies.
Grace had grown a lot of flowers already at the house having a full garden now and she loves making any type of flower arrangements, simple bouquets and flower crowns.
Kimi had asked Grace for help because he wanted to make flowers for his Bella and of course Grace helped him.
“Grazie Andy!” Francisca smiled back and kissed his cheek softly making Kimi blink and started grinning so widely as Francisca hugged Veronica and Marco last
So how is the name "Ze'ev" pronounced? does the ' represent a glottal stop? are the two es representing a single vowel sound of ɛ, i, e, or some other vowel?
I feel like the most commonly thought-of pronunciation is /ziv/, but it could also be /ziʔiv/, /zɛv/, /zɛʔɛv/, /zev/, /ziʔɛv/, /zeʔɛv/, or the lunar language isn't actually English and it uses the same glyphs and writing system as English but they represent different phonemes? Maybe they don't even use the same glyphs/writing system and it's just been translated into English?
I sort of like /zɛv/ but idk
It is now my headcanon that the lunar language uses either the cyrillic alphabet or the runic alphabet and humans can only understand them when they glamour their perceptions or when they speak universal
Quick lore: izel and zeev come from a city that's split in half between warriors and pacifists, izel is next in line to be leader of the warrior people and zeev is the pacifists head healer. Sometimes they need his magic on the other side and that's how he and izel meet, and fall in ✨️ love ✨️, and they run awake to drakeopia where they can be together without scrutiny. And then Kumi is born there.
Kumi takes after her mom and is a spunky wild child ready to fight and defend.
