One day a young sprite of a girl walked up through these tunnels andbrang the door. A boy and a girl guarding the door called from within as they trained wooden swords and cross bows on the visitor.
"Gwai sing dai ming!" What is your surname and what is your name!
"Serena, is what I am called." The girl answered without missing a beat. She coukd have been an old 13... or a young 30. She was hard to place. She looked young, but she had an air of immortal gravity about her. "I have no surname. I lost it."
The boy and the girl guards imagined she lost it in the tunnels or perhaps left it on the bus.
"Do you want us to help you find it?"
"In a way, yes." Said Serena. "I'm looking for the owner of the Phoenix sword. I have brought these cookies as a gift."
They boy and girl had no idea what that was, but they became very excited when they heard Serena talk about it. "Well this is the Dragon Phoenix school of healing arts. So I think you have come to yhe right place. But we can't let you in because you are a stranger and you might be an adult. Are you an adult? Anyway, even if you aren't an adult you are a big kid and we don't know you so we have to get a grown up. Wait here....Old Xiong!!!! OLD XIONG!!!! There is a lady at the door, ir maybe a kid, but a big kid. She could be 13
and look old, or she could be 30. She has cookies. Can we have them?"
Old Xiong came running quickly on sock covered tiptoe.
They never got visitors. The houses were quite far away from each other and nobody ever went up to someone's door unnannounced. They would have sent a message ahead by some means or another.
Old Xiong looked at the girl woman. It was true, she could of been 13 or 30... but she had the severity of someone who was 300.
"How can I help you?"
The woman simply stepped into the house with such grace that Old Xiong could not bar her way.
" I brought these Haiku Crescent cookies... each cookie has a poem inside."
Old Xiong grabbed them. He was lax, and none of the 18 had allergies...in fact despite the possibility if it being somewhat disvriminatory he did not accomodate children with serious allergies.
But who knew what was in these things. The girl had them in a bag..." ok chikdren can take one home each when their parents pick them up."
"One each? There are only three here....whats wrong with you? Why are you so nervous?"
"I don't think parents woukd appreciate a stranger around their children."
"No problem, I'll come back tonight."
"Some of the older children sleep over."
"I will visit you in you dreams."
There was nothing flirtatious or joking about her manner. It was all business, which made Old Xiong think that hisnlast guess in age was the closest and that he was in the presence if an immortal, or perhaps a demon. She did not turn to leave, but instead walked further i to the house. Old Xiong followed her down the hall and lost her.
The 18 thought it was hillarious and played a game where they tried to find her.
Old Xiong called all the parents and suggested that they pick up their children. He believed there was a snake demon in the house.
It was Friday anyway and most parents picked up their kids, and some did not. They thought the snake demon woman sounded fantastic and asked if they coukd dress up as Snake demons as well.
Old Xiong's wife thoughtbhe was crazy anyway, and his sons thought that maybe he was on some scheme or something.
In any case. Old Xiong burned incense to Kwan Gung and readied himself to do batyle.wity evil spirits. He asked Kara to take out the oak sword and parctice Pik Che geem faht and the Hail Mary sword form. Old Xiong readied his one sword and suddenly the shadows flickered in the firelight and the girl.woman appeared.
"There are three of us now....take out the Haiky Cookies."
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