#ashakhara

ashakhara started following aideenfuria

Asha!

Aideen actually grinned and jumped down from the truck bed, running to her new friend. She thought Asha was her friend? Asha was very nice and talked so much and had shared her crayons and her flyers with Aideen. That was what friends did, right?

Little hand closing around the tiny tooth she held in her palm, Asha blinked up at Dave —tooth fairy?  Mama and daddy hadn’t ever mentioned anything like a tooth fairy.  And why would she need to put it under her pillow … couldn’t she just hand the tooth over whenever the fairy showed up?  Dark eyes glued to her fist for a second, she made to bury her hands into the pockets of her jackets before smiling up at Dave once more.

“What’s the tooth fairy, uncle Dave?  Mama an’ daddy ain’t ever mentioned a tooth fairy before!”

“They ain’t mentioned the tooth fair ‘fore?” Putting down the pen, he pulled his attention away from the map he’d been plotting and crouched down to Asha’s level. There was work to be done, yes, but kids had to have their childhoods too. “Y’know I bet it must be somethin’ yer mama an’ papa don’t know about.”

He reached out and closed her little hand around the baby tooth, smiling as he glanced around. “Y’gotta put that under yer pillow and the tooth fairy’ll come by an’ leave ya a surprise. But only if yer a good girl and go t’sleep. She don’t appear if ya try to stay awake to see her, trust me darlin’ I’ve tried.”

@ashakhara started following gingersmiith

“So, you must be our newest and brightest mind, eager to learn. Do you have a name?” Sania asked of the young girl who had been deposited there with her mother in tow. It wasn’t a profession she’d ever seen herself doing, but in the World of Ruin, everyone needed something to get by. For her, being schoolteacher to the newest generations had been something that had simply fallen on her. And she took to it with aplomb alongside her other scientific duties. It took her mind off of things, anyhow. 

She couldn’t see Da from inside.

But Da had promised she’d be safe with Asha, and so had Miss Sara -- and it did sometimes get boring, watching them. And hot. Really, really hot sometimes. So today she had followed Asha inside, her eyes widening as the other gilr upended a box of paper pieces onto a table.

3 Little Words:

Sitting down on the step of his mama’s house, Dave gave little Asha’s back a soft pat and he offered a small smile.

He didn’t know why the little’un was upset, but if there was one thing he didn’t want her doing, it was hiding the fact.

prompts featuring slice of life scenarios.

Aideen nodded, holding up one pinky solemnly.