My fair faire

[sunflowerfields]

Who: Erryone
When: Day 170, right before leaving for Heartstone Manor
Where: The cookhouse
What: dinner and a show A crash course in table etiquette, and/or your chance to get your bad behavior out of your system.
Warnings: Watch your damn language.



With the threat of behave or die hanging over their heads, Hinawa is feeling very nervous. She's only tangentially familiar with the rules and regulations of formal dining and mingling, having only experienced it for the first time during the Celebration, and for the most part she's just a simple country gal. The last thing she wants is to get everyone in trouble because she used the wrong fork, and she can't help but feel like she's not the only one, so she comes up with a plan!

She only hopes it'll be enough.

[This is a mingle-ish! Jump on in!]

Comments

[pullingamiko]

Miko just... turned her head enough to look at her. Frowning. Pouting, actually.

"I've got plenty of confidence, this is just stupid and I don't wanna do it!"

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

"Like so much else which you might voice,
You do not really have a choice," Zecora said philosophically.
"Though this path may be filled with strife
Doing what we must is, I fear, life.
Will you scream at this new test?
Or will you try and do your best"

[pullingamiko]

She considers that for a few seconds.

"...What if I scream at it now, then do... something resembling my best later?"

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Zecora actually chuckled at that. Not a bad way to look at things, honestly, if she were to offer an opinion...

"That's more of a start.
So long as in your heart
You still try to learn
Lest ignorance burn."

[pullingamiko]

"Yeah, yeah..." She sighs and shifts position to thunk her head down on the table.

Then, after a moment of thought, she turns to look at Zecora again, frowning thoughtfully. "...Why d'you talk like that, anyway?"

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Funny. Ponies never asked why she spoke in rhyme, but humans always did. What a curious cultural divide.

"If your native tongue rhymed naturally,
You too would rhyme instinctively."

Which was proved, Zecora had learned, by her time as a human -- in which she had not rhymed at all.

[pullingamiko]

“So... it’s like an accent.” Makes sense, she guesses. “How does a whole language rhyme, though?”

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

"The only answer I have got
Is to ask how this one does not."

Really, it didn't make sense to her at all, though she'd accepted it as a self-evident truth. She had to assume non-zebras just thought very differently in some ways than her own kind.

[pullingamiko]

"Well, I mean, the words just..." She gestures, somewhat pointlessly, at the air in front of her. "It can rhyme, like in songs and stuff. But usually you gotta be trying - though I guess sometimes people do rhyme on accident. 'S just not how it goes automatically, y'know?"

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

"And in my home tongue it would be a fight
To not rhyme, try as you might."

The answer was not quite direct, but Zecora was trying to encourage Miko to see just how her viewpoint worked from Zecora's side.