[ A mouthful of teeth, a promise to devour in them as she smiles.
Her mouth opens at him. Right - they were alien to each other. She frowns at him and - no, no she's not going to fumble through geography with him. She looks around her for a stick and once found, with her foot she cleans out the ground in front of them. Smoothing it flat as a makeshift canvas.
It's done with mouthfuls of mead in between as she begins to draw a map of the world. It's crude, not very detail but she starts with what she had seen on maps now labelled as India, draws the rest of the continent Europe, China, then off to the side, England, then great mass that is Africa, below Europe. Lower she draws the Southern Continent, the Colony of New South Wales. Then further across she draws the New World, North and South America to the best of knowledge and as remembered. A little skewed, but it lets him get the idea.
Taps her stick to the United Kingdom with a firm tap. ]
England as you said you were familiar with it. [ Of course he was, she relents in the want to roll her eyes for the thought. ] This is where Jhansi is, foreigners call it India but we call it Hindustan.
[ She picks out a place in the North of India, near to the Himalayas. ] These places are all England's colonies. [ And she begins to pick out place after place, to give him a full understand of what she meant by saying it. ]
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[ A mouthful of teeth, a promise to devour in them as she smiles.
Her mouth opens at him. Right - they were alien to each other. She frowns at him and - no, no she's not going to fumble through geography with him. She looks around her for a stick and once found, with her foot she cleans out the ground in front of them. Smoothing it flat as a makeshift canvas.
It's done with mouthfuls of mead in between as she begins to draw a map of the world. It's crude, not very detail but she starts with what she had seen on maps now labelled as India, draws the rest of the continent Europe, China, then off to the side, England, then great mass that is Africa, below Europe. Lower she draws the Southern Continent, the Colony of New South Wales. Then further across she draws the New World, North and South America to the best of knowledge and as remembered. A little skewed, but it lets him get the idea.
Taps her stick to the United Kingdom with a firm tap. ]
England as you said you were familiar with it. [ Of course he was, she relents in the want to roll her eyes for the thought. ] This is where Jhansi is, foreigners call it India but we call it Hindustan.
[ She picks out a place in the North of India, near to the Himalayas. ] These places are all England's colonies. [ And she begins to pick out place after place, to give him a full understand of what she meant by saying it. ]