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She laughed as her niece broke into Spanish with ease, listening to the words and carefully contemplating. The laughter faded into a frown at the use of feminine pronouns in regards to Molcaxitl Yocatl, for Tlantli herself believed the slaves of Eterne — and therefore the slaves of all cultures — to be little more than machines raised to utilize certain abilities. She shook her head, prepared to correct the girl: "No, Salvia. Not 'she'." She waved her hand as if to reinforce that the girl was doing something wrong. "The slaves, they ahre not liek us. You should not call them with the same words." She felt it best to instill this thought in the girl while still young, lest it cause the trouble of Salvia befriending a slave in the future. She supposed it was different with children who were cared for by such a thing; that didn't change the fact that Tlantli saw it to be wrong. Whether or not Eris believed so as well was unknown to the golden creature, and Larkspur's opinion in the matter was (for the most part) unimportant.
At the news that Eris' cat, the beautiful ocelot Itzcitla, was also a speaker of the Spanish language, Tlantli was unsurprised. "Por supuesto. Él proviene de Eterne, como ella y yo." Of course, she was only making an assumption; Eris had never mentioned where she received the cat, but Tlantli had seen others like it in the jungles of Mexico. She rubbed at her lower jaw, letting the conversation on the cat disappear. There was a more important one at hand that was realized as she studied the four-legged body of the young Eternity female. "¿Cuántos años tienes ahora, Salvia?" The girl was certainly growing up, and the Crone believed it would soon be time to bring the child into the ranks of the adults.
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