socialcapital | [ JACKSON HEART ]

[Demon children are fine. Normal kids are like... impressionable and stuff. Deeply contemplating if gate things are worth dealing with babies...]

He COULD just take a fruit. An elemental might bite him or something though.

[Inconvenient to be without his tamer skills right now. SIGHs and goes to... pop out of a bush near the kids]

He pops out of a bush and startles... a pair of twins, both blond with amber eyes. Two baby Jackson Umbras...?

One of them squeaks and freezes like a baby bunny. The other IMMEDIATELY grabs a stick to hit you with.

Whoa, twins?? [EVEN MORE ANNOYING] --hey don't hit me!

He bonks you with the stick but then pauses and realizes you're like, just a guy.

"Oh. Sorry."

He does have a little bit of the uwu babyspeak, but I'm not writing that out phonetically, so just imagine everything is said like a five year old might say it,

[can't believe jackson was a twin all along. betrayal.]

Naw, ya probably should hit strangers just poppin' up outta nowhere...

"Oh."

He exchanges glances with his twin and then picks up the stick again...

Wait wait, ya already got me once! I'm not here ta make problems, I'm just lookin' for someone who knows this greenhouse!

The non-stick twin says, "We know it."

"Yeah, we know it!"

Oh, great. Ya know who I should ask if I wanna mango?

"Probably mom?"

"Probably dad?"

"But we can give permission too!"

Oooh, neat, so this is your family's garden?

They chorus "Yeah!" in unison, with identical proud expressions.

Well if you can give permission then could I get a mango or two? A friend of mine had a bad time lately and mangos cheer people up.

"Yeah!"

"But!"

"Pick one for us too!"

I guess that's fair. Which tree makes the tastiest mangos?

The one without a stick scurries forward and holds a hand out like he's gonna lead you somewhere.

[Is actually used to being a big brother so he'll give his hand to one twin and offer his free hand to the other]

He gets a twin on each hand! They both pull in roughly the same direction, but not really in unison. Neither is strong enough to move him independently though so it's mostly just directional tugs.

[Just letting them drag him along, not in any rush]

You guys just live out in the garden or is there a big house too?

"We live in a palace!"

"But the garden is more fun."

They tug him along to a little grove of fruit trees near the middle of the garden. They don't look especially decorated or very special, except that at child-height someone has tied a little thread around one of the trunks to mark it as their Favorite Tree.

Seems warm enough ta camp out here if ya wanted.

[looking at the grove]

I'm realizin' mango trees look really weird.

"It's always warm in here, yeah."

"But we'd get wet when it watered the gardens..."

One of the twins (the one with the stick) lets go of your hand and runs over to pat the tree with the thread.

"This is the best one."

[Coming over to check out the fruits]

You guys'll have ta pick out the mangoes, I've never seen 'em on their trees before.

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