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 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:48 pm
Gary needed to pick up a loaf of bread from the local bakery. Bakery bread was expensive, but Gary was egar to pony up the money. After all what better to introduce new flavors to children than sneaking them into a beloved staple of thier diet? The bakery was also filled with sweets, brightly colored with icing, candy, and sugar. Gary still had a sweet tooth, and it was hard for him to set a good example for the toddler he had leashed.
Ranis wasn't sure if this place smelled good or not. He had never entered a bakery and new things had a way of confusing him. He could hear the loud machines kneading the bread in the kitchens. He could smell the ovens baking. His eyes absorbed every color of the rainbow.
Ranis walked up to the glass and attempted to find a way to get closer to the strange food that was sheltered behind its clear barrier. He was slightly suspicious of the brightly colored food. In his experience with eating insects, the brightly colored ones were usually the ones that tasted horrible .
So, there is where bread came from. Keirro always hired Gary to pick it up for her, so she wouldn't be troubled with dealing with bakery lines. From the toddler's point of view, the bakery didn't look all that busy.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:04 pm
Somewhere in the last few hundred years, Aurrek had to admit that he had acquired a sweettooth. Humans always seemed to come up with more and more different ways to bake bread and cookies and other such things, which, taste aside, provided the hourglass god with a source of endless entertainment. It had been a while since he had had a chance to stop by a bakery, too, so lacking anything else to do, Aurrek nudged the bakery door open with his hip and walked on in.
He dragged a pram that looked like it had come straight out of the 1890's in behind him, with his kid Kelreid inside. The pram's other passenger, the white-skinned man's "pet" crab, hid under some of the blankets in the basket, away from the infant's reach.
Somewhere overhead, a bell jingled when Aurrek opened the door. Smiling a little, Kelreid wiggled his limbs and squealed in an effort to mimic the sound.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:29 pm
It was like watching a nature documentary. Ranis silently turned his attention towards the new person that walked in and instantly initiated a challenge. The boy snorted defiantly at the stranger and the baby, as if to remind Aurrek that he was intruding on Ranis's territory.
The boy's eyes scanned Aurrek and Kelreid. He took care to notice that even though this man was much larger than the toddler, he was handicapped by the presence of the baby. Ranis narrowed his eyes and placed himself in between the case of cookies and Aurrek.
Ranis only learned to fear one thing and that was the wrath of Keirro or her mother. Everyone, from the boy's perspective, could eff off.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:58 am
Oh, how cute, there was a little kid standing in front of the cookies. Aurrek was headed for the other pastries instead, at the other end of the case. He carefully maneuvered the pram, trying to take up as little space as possible in doing so, so he would not be rude or in the way. This resulted in one of the pram wheels skidding sideways across the linoleum with kind of a squeak.
"Sorry," Aurrek told the other woman there, flashing her a quick smile and hoping he could turn the baby carraige the rest of the way around without making the same noise again.
Kelreid rolled over and pushed himself up on his hands - that was about the closest he could get to walking, but, if nothing else, it helped him see sometimes. After much squirming that got him back onto his back again, he repeated the movement and, with his father's help, found himself sitting upright facing the case of pastries.
The boy stuck his thumb into his mouth, and made an approving sound around it.
Aurrek glanced between the other woman and her child (he was different, but not the strangest thing he had ever seen - the kid in the pram was practically see-through). Then he leaned close to Kelreid, and quietly told him what each of the pastries were called as he pointed them out through the glass.
He figured it would be kind of like a ouija board. Whatever ones Kelreid flapped his arms at would be the ones that Aurrek would buy. Save himself the trouble of having to choose himself - this place had a really nice selection!
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:42 am
How DARE he! Ranis snorted as he made a show of what he thought of those in intruded on his territory. Ranis growled at the stranger and its child. His ears stood straight up in a show of dominance.
A jerk from his leash reminded the boy that his babysitter was still holding the reins. Ranis jerked back of the leash in determination. Ranis had little respect for any one whose name did not start and end with "Keirro". Poor Gary did not posses such a name and the toddler was quick to remind him so.
The boy finally noticed that the baby in the carriage looked rather strange. Quickly hostility turned into wary curiosity. Ranis sniffed in the direction of the baby. He had never seen a see-through child before.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:14 pm
Aurrek glanced over his shoulder at the other boy as he heard growling. Somehow, the kid's noise failed to impress the god; any sort of mortal attempt at dominance did little for Aurrek but occasionally make him smile. Pecking order had never been his problem, and even though it might concern Kelreid at some point in his life, the baby did not seem to care much now, either.
"Which ones do you think look good?" the hourglass god asked the little boy as he turned his attention back to Kelreid. "Pick one for me, and one for you, too, and I'll buy them both for us." He could put Kelreid's pastry in the blender or something, since the little guy still could not quite eat anything that was not mush.
The water-element boy squealed and, taking his hand out of his mouth, inarticulately waved his drool-covered fingers at the glass. There was something there covered with chocolate and it looked tasty. Or Kelreid wanted to stick his fingers in it, anyway.
After a moment, though, he became aware of someone staring at him. He blinked and squinted at the glass case, wondering if one of the pastries was watching back. He could kind of see his own reflection in the glass, but the feeling did not go away when he closed his eyes. So Kelreid opened them again and looked around, until his gaze fell on another person-shape that did look an awful lot like it was watching him.
Kelreid grinned and waved his arms to the small person-shape, and the other bigger one with it.
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