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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 109. Baby Series 3 #96. Takes
place shortly after Children Grew Up Fast. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
The Fool "It's here somewhere. I should have separated it and put it in a place where I could just grab it when I needed it." "It is not as though we need to be anywhere in a hurry." Wu Fei knelt to better see one of the portraits in the dim lighting. "It's only a small portrait compared to these; and it's older. Much older I would think. I almost missed it when I was looking because it is so much smaller. You sort of skip over it." "This one… is interesting. " Duo paused, turning to look and he grinned. "I think it's a Masque. There are a few of them in the collection." "The Fool." Chang was peering at the lower frame of the picture, wiping a finger over the name plate. "I wonder who the artist was? It is very well done." Duo grasped the suspended light and tried to direct more light to the painting. It had medieval overtones in the style of painting and the costumes of the guests. Centre piece of the painting was the character of a jester, complete with belled hat, face mask, bright red and yellow outfit and juggling balls. He was entertaining at a feast, a long table of sumptuous foods at the rear of the picture and the gentry of the time seated or standing around the cleared area, elaborate masks held before their faces. "I don't know if it's by the same artist, but there's another one sort of like this one in the pile. The centre character is a musician though." "I doubt it would have been an accurate representation of the event, should it not have come entirely from the imagination of the artist. Many paintings were painted centuries after the costuming depicted actually represents the period. I know Sanc goes back a long way and is largely overlooked by history, being a small country which liked to be overlooked by the larger powers. Pagan once mentioned it had its founding in the days of the Vikings." "There's a bunch of stone carvings and etchings somewhere up here. Really old stuff. There's even carved deer antlers. Honestly, Fei, it looks like stuff pinched out of a history museum. Somewhere over there, I think, there's even a jade dragon." Wu Fei's head lifted. "A dragon made of jade?" "Yeah. Small and finely crafted. It looks oriental. Chinese I would think, and I noticed one like it in the painting we are looking for." Now intrigued Wu Fei motioned to Duo to continue looking. Jade was not something which was freely traded in the days of the Emperors of China. Nor were daughters of the Chinese nobility married to heathen Europeans, and if Sancian nobility had visited China he very much doubted they had survived their reception. They were dark days and China was pretty much a closed country. //It makes no sense. Had one travelled to China at that time, one would have been a dead fool.// ~ * ~ |
