[Kratos's wince is internal only, thankfully; but the fact it's even there at all tells him how assured he was getting in their understanding of each other. Any time they're misaligned feels like a deeper gash than it should. Kratos has heard there's a point where such misalignment stops leaving scars at all, but if so, they haven't hit it yet.
[The family is eyeing Yuan only a touch warily when Kratos moves forward to take the paperwork and read it out loud, and explain it. The women are attentive. The toddler is asleep. The middle child is, it seems, too intimidated to move out from behind her mother. The eldest girl appears to be fascinated by Yuan's hair, but is at least old enough not to get out of her seat to investigate.
[She does, however, have a very important question to ask just as soon as Kratos has finished explaining, while the women are signing the various pages required.]
Will I get to wear a pretty braid like that?
[Kratos follows the girl's gaze, and explicitly does not smile -- though there is some faint amusement in his bearing. Faint.]
Most likely. It's customary for the people of Nidavellir to braid meaning into their hair.
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[The family is eyeing Yuan only a touch warily when Kratos moves forward to take the paperwork and read it out loud, and explain it. The women are attentive. The toddler is asleep. The middle child is, it seems, too intimidated to move out from behind her mother. The eldest girl appears to be fascinated by Yuan's hair, but is at least old enough not to get out of her seat to investigate.
[She does, however, have a very important question to ask just as soon as Kratos has finished explaining, while the women are signing the various pages required.]
Will I get to wear a pretty braid like that?
[Kratos follows the girl's gaze, and explicitly does not smile -- though there is some faint amusement in his bearing. Faint.]
Most likely. It's customary for the people of Nidavellir to braid meaning into their hair.
[Then, to Yuan:]
She says your hair is pretty.