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[peonymarket]

[A. It's a very, very confuzzled Chinese nation that picks up the phone today, back from his brief droning.]

Ah? What happen? This very stupid joke, I letting you know! I was in middle of very important meeting, and-

[And by brief, I mean "a day". Yet for China, it's been over three hundred years. Give his brain a sec to catch up, yeah?]....What

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[lotuslife]

[She doesn't manage to call back in time to catch him before he's off to the hardware store. Her mind is a strange mix of emotions- confusion, anger, hope. There was something very different about his voice, then, wasn't there, and he was talking about...

...Well.

She doesn't even bother knocking, because she regards this house to be as much hers as it is his (even if it is Mayfield's, after all, and only shelter, not a home), and as soon as she comes to the hallway and sees him, she stops.]

[peonymarket]

[He's just putting the finishing touches on straightening some of the fake family portraits that hang from the walls when he first hears her enter and then sees her. For a moment he just pauses, regarding her a little warily- visions of their most recent past flashing through his head, the old hurt of betrayals and breached borders and the slow, slow scabbing over -and then China just nods. His expression is calm, his back straight, although he might look just a little more worn and tired to the sister he both loves and hates the most.]

Nihao.

[lotuslife]

...Hong Kong, and then you. [She shakes her head in disbelief, takes a small step back.]

Something's different, isn't it? [Exhales. Are her hands shaking?]

[peonymarket]

...Time has passed for me. [a brief moment, an inner debate behind his eyes, and he takes a small step forward.] Over three centuries....is very long time, you understand.

A

[evers_hacker]

[Confused April is confused by the screaming.]

... C-China?

[peonymarket]

Yes, that me!

[....oh. He drops the goofy act for a moment.]

April?

[evers_hacker]

Ah, y-yeah! [Ok, now she's gonna process what he was screaming...

Oh.] ... Um, how long were you at home?

[peonymarket]

One hundred times three years!

A

[scentofbauhinia]

[groggy sounding Hong Kong with occasional gay little dog yipping in the background.]

...Like...Already told you I recorded this week's Show M-

[okay waking up now :|] ...How'd you know about that? You like, don't even get what a tv is yet.

[peonymarket]

Now I do! It even in color- with remote!

[scentofbauhinia]

Hou aa... ['okay...']

You like, went somewhere while you were droned, right? Trust you to get so totally lost that you don't come back until tv's exist.

What year is it?

[peonymarket]

I not get lost anymore, even have Gee Pee Aye-

Oh. Ahhh, 2010...

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[hwamei]

[ also cleaning his front porch don't ask why it's early cleaning for Chinese New Year okay ;u;

probably humming one of those songs Korea keeps playing like this one aiyaaaah Taiwan and her catchy music ]

[peonymarket]

[WHY!! >:T this his porch not your porch ok....well whatever ;u;]

Ah! You getting dust on my side!

[Chinaspeak for "thank you for helping", what is being direct]

[hwamei]

Then you have to work twice as hard! [ sweep sweep sweep

attempts to sweep him off the porch ]

[peonymarket]

[oh no you didn't! prods in the side with the non-brushy part of his broom]

You young, should be the one working harder!

B;

[taegeuk]

( have a brother stalking coming to say hello, China. )

What's Hyung-nim need a gun for, huh?

[peonymarket]

[WHY NO GO AWAY ALL THE TIMES!!]

What you asking dumb questions for, ah?

[taegeuk]

It's not dumb! It's smart! It's a smart question!

[peonymarket]

Dumb! Very dumb! Should be using head for more than hatrack, ahhh....

[slipping a bunch of the handguns into his pockets behind his back...]