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Taikon stood there. He was nothing less than an image of idiocy, staring at the puppy as Aphrodite attempted to chastise her. Evidently, Juniper was a child of Dawn's. He watched, wide-eyed, while Aphrodite apologized about it. He nodded quickly, although he didn't know what it was like to have a child follow you around. The Farukans had a different way of doing things when it came to puppies.
Juniper announced they were lovers, and Taikon made a face, half-curling his upper lip and pulling his mouth in a partial-frown. A brief sexual thought passed through him, but rather than heat his loins he felt shame creep into his chest. He felt the buzz of uncertainty and lost a breath to anxiousness. The pup then quickly brushed her little nose by him, at which he automatically curled his lip. She was very small, and had touched him, and he reacted. The expression quickly restored to a confused, but congenial smile.
Aphrodite gave the child a short lesson in "adult" things. Taikon was thinking about the mint, and unintentionally interrupted. No, I didn't know that about mint, he said plainly, trying to ignore whatever cues he might read from what the blue-eyed healer had said.