Grain...

Alice looked at Amaretto with a perplexed look. "Lightning? Why are you looking for lightning? The rain storm just ended some time ago."

Amaretto rolled her eyes. "Don't tell me you have never heard the phrase?"

Johanna shook her head and Katherine placed a reassuring hand on her charge's shoulder. "You must remember Amaretto, that we have traveled quite far and they may have in fact never heard of the coloquialisms that we use."

Amaretto thought for a moment and them realized that her aunt was indeed right. This was a whole other place. Even if it looked like Victorian England, that did not mean that it was.

"I'm sorry," Amaretto said a little demurely. "My aunt Katherine is right. Forget what I said."

Alice smiled warmly and then moved to stand next to Amaretto, her red dress almost instantly clashing with Amaretto's own. "Don't worry about it. The Watchmaker said you would have some mannerisms that would be considered passing strange."

At that moment, Amaretto thought that the way Alice spoke was 'passing strange'. She looked to Katherine an her god mother smiled back. Katherine then turned to Alice and them said, "so the Watchmaker said you would show us around?"

Alice smiled. "Indeed."

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPod touch]