When Alejandro knelt to sketch in the sand, Asta moved with him, squatting easily with her feet flat on the ground and the skirt of her dress riding up so high that she realized it was showing off what lay between her legs.  That made Alejandro uncomfortable, she thought, made a lot of them uncomfortable.  It wasn't like she was trying to marry him, it was just...normal.  Like being in the sweat tent, or even the semi-permament saunas they had adopted from the Finns and built at multiple places in their wide ranging lands, enjoying them whenever they were near.  It was just your body, but she knew that sometimes it meant more, especially to boys and girls her age and older, so she changed her position to kneeling in the sand and pushed the pretty white and pink pleated skirt into place so nothing more than her thighs showed.<br/><br/>A boy and a girl.  That was easy to figure out and she affirmed it by pointing at the boy "Poika," and then the girl, "Tyttö."  Asta smiled and pushed some of her baby fine hair out of the way of her face before pointing at him.  "Alejandro - Poika," then at herself, "Asta - Tyttö."  Looking back she saw the other two and gestured.  "Giulia Tyttö, Ae...Aer," she stumbled over his name and did the best she could, "Aerin Poika.  Alejandro, Aerin  - Poika.  Giulia, Asta - Tyttö."<br/><br/>A puzzled look on her face, she tried to follow along with his next set of gestures, trying to understand what he was talking about.  It dawned on her that the line on the boy figure was his penis, and that was reinforced when he pointed to his own groin and the figure and then the strange buzzing object.  Asta took it back from him, looking between it and him and the drawing, then followed along as he gestured some more.  Slowly, Asta moved the object towards herself, between her pressed together legs and just under the hem of her skirt when she realized -<br/><br/>Dropping it into the sand, still buzzing, Asta stood up and backed away, heels making furrows rather than individual prints in the sand.  It was...well she didn't know what it was, or what it was for really, but it was something that wasn't what she thought it was and it had made Alejandro nervous too.  And she'd brought it to him, made him feel that way. What if it was taboo?  Had she done something really wrong?<br/><br/>"Anteeksi," she said, voice high and fast, the turned and walked deeper into the trees, pushing past broad-leafed plants and moving deeper into the dense foliage until she could still hear but not see the ocean.