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I. teatime and flowers
When Lily got her small Orabeoni, she was excited about it, knowing that she had one version of her Orabeoni.
A tiny Orabeoni, all for herself.
Like the other people around her, she is happy to be part of this circle of people who care for her older brother, as they are also people who her brother cares for too.
When she took him away from her head to her hand, where her orabeoni was clutching in her hand. Steady and unmoving, as he didn't want to stop holding onto her fingers.
She wasn't going to complain; she liked it. She loves her eldest brother; she will protect him from danger. Mostly this small version of him.
As she presented him to her mother, her tiny orabeoni was held tightly in her hand. Not letting her get away from her. She had let him leap onto the table, he didn’t bugded. He had only leaped out of her hand when the servant placed cookies on the table to eat.
She noticed that her orabeoni doesn’t talk. He was mute, not that it mattered to her. Her tiny orabeoni was very expressive with his actions. If he wants to get something, he would try to get it for himself, and if he can't, he would tug on her sleeves or her hands.
Like right now, he wants the cookie in the cookie stand, but it was top tier, he tried to climb but failed—he looks back at her and to the cookie stand back and forth. He was contemplating asking.
In the end, he decided to ask Lily by tugging her fingers and pointing at the top tier of the cookie stand. Lily took the cookie on the top tier and placed it in front of him, he tried to break it into smaller pieces and failed.
Lily tried not to coo at her orabeoni's actions, but he looked at her again. He could see that she was looking at him, and he blinked.
She blinked back as the answer.
His ears turn red, but that didn't stop him from asking her to break the cookies into small pieces, he points at the cookie.
Lily broke the cookies into smaller pieces, and he thanked her by shaking his head up and down continuously.
Before he returned to eating his cookie, he had placed the biggest small piece in her hand.
Lily turned back to her mother, "I am going to miss tiny Orabeoni when he is gone."
"Likewise," her father and oppa agreed.
Her mother shook her head fondly, "Then make use of the week we have with these tiny creatures."
After eating the cookie, she let her tiny orabeoni walk around the gazebo with her mother's miniature orabeoni.
She saw them return with flowers in their hands, her mother's miniature orabeoni get her mother a lavender with a shy look at his face.
She can see that her mother was trying not to coo at her her orabeoni gesture, "For me?"
Miniature orabeoni nods, placing it in front of her, "For you."
"Thank you."
She turns towards her ting orabeani, who also came to her with flowers, he tried to open her hand. She gently opened her hand so he could place the flower in it, he picked are white daisy.
Since he can't talk, another mini Cale turns to her, "For Lily, our youngest."
"Oh," Lily thanks her tiny orabeoni by patting his head, which he instantly leans into. She cooes.
II. bedtime
It was nighttime, stars were bright and the moon was out shining in the hallway, the servants had retreated to their respective rooms, Lily brought tiny orabeoni to her bed, “Orabeoni, it’s time for sleep.”
Her orabeoni nods sleepily, his head moving back and forward, drowsy.
Lily thought of sleeping in her bed while hugging her orabeoni like a doll, but decided against it; she might accidentally hug him too tightly or make him uncomfortable with sleeping with someone.
So, she made a small bed beside her bed in the nightstand. A makeshift bed with her fluffy pillow and small clothes as his blanket.
Tiny Orabeoni had fallen asleep after his head had touched the pillow, and she covered him with the blanket.
Her tiny orabeoni sleeps close to herso that she can hear soft breathing coming from him and the movement of his body that follows his breath.
It was tranquil and relaxing, and it made her feel better, knowing that he was safe.
Following the small breaths, she had fallen asleep with the sound of her orabeoni's heartbeat.
She was relaxed until a few hours later when she heard a sob, tiny sobs in the place where her oraboni was sleeping at.
She panics, she woke up to see her tiny orabeoni clutching onto the blanket she provided for him.
Tiny tears and short breaths.
She slowly takes her tiny Orabeoni and gently wipes away his tears, "Oraboni, did you have a nightmare?"
Her tiny orabeoni eyes stir awake, he blinks a few times and rubs his eyes to see her almost crying, together with him.
He placed his hands on her chin, rubbing circles, Lily shook her head, trying to hold it her tears, "I'm good."
After hearing her reply that she was well, he started to cling to her hand, wrapping his hand around her finger, "Do you want to sleep with me, orabeoni?"
In the darkness, she saw her orabani nodding along. She placed the fluffy pillow in her bed and placed it beside her own pillow.
She took him and hugged him close, and he returned her hugs too.
The hugs that she shared with her orabeoni when he was in his big form were comfortable and nice, but with small orabeoni, it was a bit awkward, but it was warm, very warm.
In a few minutes, she can hear the steady breathing of her orabeoni, it had become her favorite white noise to sleep on.
Waking up to see her orabeoni clinging onto her hand, using it as a pillow.
She cooed at the sight.