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 Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:22 pm
**Enter Luana**
Luana faded in while wringing out her hair. Her swimsuit was still damp, but her jeans were fairly dry. The lime green nail polish on her fingers and toes was chipping and peeling away, due to neglect. She had hoped that going for a swim would help her to clear her head. She was wrong.
Luana kept her eyes down, and she didn't even notice the change in her surroundings.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:32 pm
:::Kal is distracted by the rustle of another person. His eyes dialate ever so slightly when he recognizes them:::
Luana..! Wow, it's been so long, I haven't seen you in- :::He was walking closer to greet her, and realized something was strange:::
Are you... wet? :::it's not something he saw often, but he had seen her that way once before:::
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:43 pm
Her eyes snapped up to meet his the instant she heard her name. Her still dripping hair hung around her face. The pedant was tucked safely into her suit, but the chain was still visible.
A smile started to spread across her face. "Hi, K! Uh, yeah, I was in the lake." She wiped her hands off on her jeans with a little laugh. "How are you doing?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:48 pm
I'm not dripping wet.
::He refrained from saying how he was actually doing. This way he might get away with not talking about it. Kal walked over to the bar and began looking around. Before too many seconds he emerged with a towel he wished was bigger, but it was clean at least::
This might have to do.
:::he managed his first real smile in weeks as he put it around her shoulders and started to dry them off::
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:58 pm
Luana laughed. "I don't know how much good you can do with a little dish towel, but you're welcome to try."
She had more or less stayed locked in her room or alone in her tree house since her last visit to the Brink. Even though she had needed to be alone with her thoughts, it felt good to be near another person again.
She thought for a second. Over her shoulder she said, "I haven't seen you since Mystina had the baby. How long ago was that for you?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:13 pm
:::He let the towel dangle from one end, realizing that Lu was right. Then he looked away. He was a little embarassed about the whole ordeal that happened last time they met:::
Yes, that was a couple months ago.
::He hadn't kept his head, as he recalled:: I uh... hope everything went well. :::Kal didn't want to talk about it much, but he didn't want to appear like a jerk either. He took the little towel with him and searched for something else over by the bar:::
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:20 pm
Luana followed him but stayed on the other side of the bar. She considered checking her own room for a towel, but asking Kal to accompany her seemed inappropriate.
"I guess it all went well," she answered. "But one thing's for sue, that was one of the weirdest, most incredible things I have ever seen."
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:25 pm
Yeah, I know... :::He pushed some things around:::
The elders have made me watch a few births. I swear to Luca, it's the most unreal thing. And speaking from the Brink, I think that says alot.
:::he was surprised to find himself more willing to talk about it than he originally thought. Maybe it was because Luana agreed it was strange. He kept looking for a towel:::
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:34 pm
"Um, K? This was weird to watch even compared to normal human births." Not that I actually saw much of it, she thought. "Mystina had an..." She decided that there really was no other way to say it. "She had an egg. The baby was born in an egg."
She had seen it happen, but as she listened to herself, even Luana had trouble believing it.
She leaned over the counter. "I don't think you're going to find any other towels back there."
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:39 pm
::he rubbed his chin as he came up from his search:::
You may be right. ::He considered offering his own shirt, but it wasn't much more cloth than the little towels provided::
I'm sure I've got something in my chamber, care to see?
::He started towards the key wrack, passing her along the way. He realized he was confused about her previous comment::
...what's an egg?
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:49 pm
She brushed a lock of wet hair behind her ear while she considered his offer. Something in the back of her mind advised against being alone with a male in that sort of environment, but considering that she was alone with him anyway, it didn't make much difference to her where in the Brink they were. There didn't seem to be any harm in taking him up on the offer.
"Well, you remember birds, right?" she asked. "It's the way they give birth, they lay eggs. So do reptiles, amphibians, fish, and a lot of other creatures. Different animals lay different kinds of eggs, too."
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:58 pm
::He was in the middle of picking up his key and turning around when he stopped dead, turned a little white, and looked back at her:::
Those kinds of eggs...? I thought you were using some sort of 21st century slang I wasn't familiar with!
:::now he just looked plain disturbed:::
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:01 pm
Luana shook her head. "Nope, it was a real egg, shell and all. It was soft though, so I had to start it by cutting it open with my pocket knife." Luana smiled and tried not to laugh. "Like I said, it was weird."
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:04 pm
Yeah...
::feeling the familiar faintness settling in that he did when first seeing Mystina in labor, it was time for action:::
Uhm, Luana. Not that I should change the subject... but let's just... go get you dried off.
:::Kal still looked a bit green around the edges as he walked past her towards the hall. He tried not to think about anything she had just said:::
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:07 pm
"Okay." Luana followed him out of the main room.
**Exit Luana and Kal to Guest Rooms, 66**
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