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You say to the princess that you were doing what you hoped any other parent would do, patting the changeling's head. Lulu nods with a bashful smile. You lay back down fully as your arm starts to sting, and your daughter offers her disguise to be used as a pillow. You smile, and ask Tamako how she got so good with sign language.
"I mean it took me a second to get it, but after watching all the people in Stripes City signing I figured it out." Tamako says puffing up proudly.
You wonder if learning languages quickly is part of her Changeling magic or glamour, or whatever it's called. She came out of her egg speaking both English and Japanese, after all. You say outloud that we should find a way to contact home base, though you aren't sure how you are going to go about doing it.
"I'm sure Kamiko has something!" Tamako says, pumping her fists and looking towards the still rowdy sounding room with the cages. "Let's wait for them to finish up fighting."
You ask Lulu how she even ended up kidnapped in the first place. You and Tamako share information with her on what you know or figured out yourself, and ask if she can fill in the blanks.
You thought she would just spin a tale with her hands, but she actually gets up and starts performing out bits of the story.
She explains that she wasn't kidnapped from her father's party, but she did leave with her mother. She could feel an argument brewing, so just to keep the peace she went. The Mime Queen was mad because the story went on longer than they thought it would, and it cut into an event Lulu and her mother were going to attend.
Acting like she's slitting open an envelope and unfolding a note, Lulu goes on to talk about how she got a new letter when she got back to her room. Then realizing she had to back up a bit, explains that the letters Tamako found tended to just appear out of nowhere. It didn't even matter if she was with her mother or father, the letters would find her all the same. Lulu had always liked them because it became a sort of secret that neither her mother nor father knew about. She especially got interested when she figured out it was probably other clowns trying to contact her.
"I bet it was the cat who dropped off the letters." Tamako says between translations.
Lulu looks startled for a moment, and then sad. When translated she admits, "That's probably true. There isn't any other way a letter would get passed all the guards and security."
You ask how she ended up kidnapped, and Lulu says one of the letters she got was much communicative, telling her to come to the Clown Ruins if she wanted to know more about her birth father's side of the family. Lulu shrugs sadly, and then finishes up saying that after she snuck passed the receptionist she was kidnapped, and doesn't really know what happened again until she ended up in the cage.
