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Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 4:37 am
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The moon rose high over the junkyard, with light reflecting through the metal hunks and pieces of discarded trash. Broken ladders, deflated basketballs, moldy jars.... you could find anything here. It was a collection of the busted and shambled leftovers of the world. It smelled atrocious with a metallic tang wafting in the air, nevermind the biodegraded matter. The air was open and stuffy at the same time with light highlighting the oddest places but never reaching the darkness where danger lurked.
For her, it was home.
Sneaking through the hidden paths she remembered, Tevini had come to return to her old stomping grounds. She knew better than to go back into her hive directly but couldn't avoid the entire junkyard when it was her main source of materials for her projects. It was a risk she'd have to live with until Cerpin could procure some more beetles to buy higher quality items. Besides, she missed the comforting solitude this place brought. Or she had until she heard a noise. It was larger than a rat or the other creatures that sometimes wandered through this heap of junk. Was it a drone? Nervous, she held her breath and peeked around a large discarded refrigerator to see the source of the sound.
seekingCylem Sorry I didn't have her run into him straight outta the gate! I wanted to give you a chance to describe what he's up to! He can basically do anything to her hive, she's not been there to protect it! Or if you need more to work with, let me know and I'll edit!
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 2:54 am
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There was already a troll here.
Holding very still, Tevini surveyed the situation and immediately began trying to come up with the quietest way to leave. She couldn't arouse any suspicion, she knew her hive was still being watched. It was unfortunate but just how life was. Who knew signing one piece of paper was going to lead to all of this? Shifting to look around, the girl watched in horror as the boy jumped onto a car and triggered its alarm. Every troll in the area would hear that!
She flew into motion, sliding out from the debris and diving to the scuttlebuggy. She wasn't familiar with this exact model but most of them could be silenced if you pulled the fuse. Smashing the remaining window, she reached in to rip the panel next to the steering wheel open and pulled out a few fuses. The alarm died and she breathed in relief. Only about ten seconds of the sound blasting, most trolls would probably shrug that off and return on their way. The junkyard was safe for another night, free from concerned citizens. Minus the boy. Oh no, the boy!
"Um..." Turning to look at him, Tevini swallowed. What was she supposed to tell him after leaping out of the dark like that? Besides, he shouldn't even be here in the first place, this was her territory! Until a few months ago it'd been her hive! She wanted to yell at him to get out! If only the words came that easily to her. Instead what she said was...
"You're not safe." -here, she'd meant to say. Fumbling with her words, the girl wanted to scare him off but came across more condescending than cryptic.
seekingCylem i loved the car alarm, so cute! > w<
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 3:35 pm
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Sascha froze mid-flail as he suddenly registered that the alarm had cut off. Had he just gone deaf? Carefully, worried he'd set it off again, he removed his hands from his head and sat up. Bagwormother too, pushed her head out from beneath her shell. She blended in with the other piles of junk so well, Sascha had nearly forgotten she was present.
His attention at the moment was on a pair of horns he saw sticking up over the roof of the scuttlebuggy. The bright orange contrasted with pretty much everything else in the junkyard. Sascha leaned over to get a better look just as Tevini gave him her attention. There was a weird second where they just looked at each other, processing.
Sascha was clearly taking longer than Tevini. He pointedly looked at her, then the silent scuttlebuggy's now-open window, then back at Tevini again. He barely even registered that she'd spoken to him.
"Wait- What?" Sascha's voice sounded strange to his own ears after that auditory blast from the alarm, but he shrugged it off. "Who the hell are you, and why do you care?"
Despite the rough phrasing, Sascha's tone wasn't accusatory. Tevini hardly had an authoritative air about her, so Sascha doubted she was indicating that she was the source of danger. He bothered to at least push himself up off the dirt.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:03 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:28 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 11:48 pm
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