.nonsense.
She curled pale and slim in the sheets, her hair a waterfall of color over his arms. She was amazing, perfect. He was in love with the curve of her spine, and traced it with ghost-light fingers.
"We'll get married and move to a little house in the countryside," he said, not even listening to what he was saying. "You can build a rocketship out of soda cans and work for NASA, thanks to my awesome connections, until one day when the soda industry collapses and you have no way to get to Cape Canaveral."
"Let Me Hear Your Heart's Cry-kun cannot translate your nonsense," was her dry response, the lazy tone of her voice sending shivers down his spine.
Jose ignored her and continued, "Then we'll have no choice but to rely on my practice to support us. We'll have a dozen children and I'll play with them all and tell them not to bother Mommy when she's working. When it comes time to tell them about 'the birds and the bees' we'll have a robot light-show demons--"
"Tell them about what?"
"The--" He faltered a moment. "The birds and the bees. You know, the uh, sex talk." Her translation device and his overnight education tapes hadn't covered that material somehow.
Anissina turned over to raise an elegant eyebrow at him, and Jose spared a breath to be amazed that such a refined and beautiful woman was interested in him. (Although it was probably more likely that she was interested in his electronics.) The aristocracy still prevalent in Shin Makoku was obvious in her features.
"You mean the bears and the bees?"
"The what now?"
"The bears and the bees. The sex talk."
Jose paused. Now he wondered if maybe her translator was really misfunctioning... not that he was stupid enough to say so. "That doesn't make any sense," he pointed out. "Why would it be bears and bees?"
Anissina said matter-of-factly, "Bearbees."
He couldn't think of a decent response for that, but he didn't have to, because she followed it up with an indignant, "And why do the birds and the bees make any more sense?"
Which of course they didn't. Jose admitted defeat graciously, and the redhead smirked and reeled him in to claim her prize.