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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:56 pm
Well, seeing that everyone at home was working, Lind decided that it was time for some wandering. By himself. This would certainly be an interesting experience. Humming a tune under his breath, he rummaged around his room, pulling out an mp3 player from the pocket of a dirty pair of jeans. He put the headphones on, still humming as he walked out the door. "'M GOING OUT!" he called over his shoulder as the door swung shut.
And with a grin, he set off down the road with a bounce in his step, humming along to the music.
"And keep telling yourself that 'I'm a diiiiva~'"...Okay, so he wasn't the best singer ever. He bounced down the sidewalk, dodging around people and ignoring any strange looks he received.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:06 pm
Outside of town, but not too far away, there was another sort of outing being planned. Guinevere stuffed her last book into the suitcase, looked around her room, and snapped it shut. Grunting with effort, she dragged it over to the window and threw it out. It landed on the ground with a thud. She grabbed the last thing she wanted to take with her, a black silk strand ripped off a dress that reminded her of her former guardian and was something which she dearly cherished. She nodded grimly. "Right then." She edged out of the window and gasped, falling and flapping her wings as hard as she possibly could. With an off, she landed on the ground a bit more softly perhaps than a fall from the attic window would have merited for anyone without wings. She glanced at the house. "I'm running away now." she announced to it, and picking up her luggage, she left, singing softly. "...Thought I'd cry for you fooorever, but I couldn't, so I didn't..."
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:21 pm
"It's a beautiful daaaayyyy, the sky falls and you feel likee...." Well. Something fell, anyways. Being too engrossed in his own musings (read: dancing/singing/walking), he didn't notice the small girl climbing out of the window and landing on the sidewalk.
Yes, he'd been told many times to be more aware of his surroundings. So, with a bit of hopping, leaping, and contorting, he managed not to fall on top of her. Just on the sidewalk next to her. With a sigh, he pulled one of the earphones out and took a survey of the situation. One familiar looking girl and a suitcase.
Oh dear.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:31 am
Guinevere looked up as she bumped into something and looked up. It was an older boy who was apparently taking multitasking to the next level. She recognised him as a Herald but something else seemed familiar about him and for reasons mystifying to her she briefly thought of Vikings. But whomever he might have been, he was also staring at her. "You know," she said with as much severeness as she could muster, "It's quite rude to stare at a lady with a suitcase." She pondered this statement. "Or a lady without a suitcase. So no matter what the circumstances are, it's still impolite."
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:29 pm
"Ah! I'm terribly sorry!" Lind said, hopping up from the sidewalk, brushing off his pants and giving Guinevere a small bow. "You are right, it was terribly rude, and as an apology, I would be more than happy to help you carry your suitcase to wherever you need to go?" he offered with a grin. Hey, he wasn't raised as a complete barbarian. Plus she seemed interesting. There was always time for something interesting in his mind.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:43 pm
Guinevere thought about his offer, tapping her chin with one finger. "Hmm-mmm. I suppose you could carry my suitcase." she admitted. It was extremely difficult for her to manage after all. "And I don't know where I'm going." she proclaimed. "I thought I might see if I could find my friend Kemuri and ask where he thoguht I should go." She nodded. "But I haven't got the faintest idea of where he could be. So I think now I'm going to go in to town and ask the old man in the candleshop if I can live in his attic because he said it was full of dribbly candles and cobwebs and spiders and it sounds simply charming. And I brought all my saved up allowance to pay him to use the attic but I'm not sure it's enough." She paused, looking worried. "So if it isn't, just dropping me off in a bus shelter would be good for now." she finished.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:12 pm
"Dribbly candles and spiders, huh?" Lind asked as he picked up the suitcase. "Weeeell, I'm not sure where Kemuri is either, but I think the store you're looking for issss....that way!" And with that, he grabbed one og Guinevere's hands and set off down the sidewalk in the indicated direction.
"So, running away, hm?" He asked, shifting the suitcase into a more comfortable position. "I remember I tried to run away once, but it didn't turn out so well. A word of advice, never run away with a gryphon, for they can be easily bribed to bring you back."
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:01 am
Guinevere followed Lind, half dragged, half walking. "Yes, I'm leaving." she said. "I thought I should go off and seek my fortune by now so that I could enrich my life." she explained. "Plus Kotatsu sent my to my room for no good reason so the house was obviously trapped in a cruel dictatorship." She nodded gravely. "My cat is also easily bribed. So to make sure he couldn't tell I blindfolded him." That had been quite difficult. "What do you feel like when the sky falls?" she asked, as she had heard him singing.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:55 pm
"Such is life, such is life," Lind said dramatically, eyes rolling upwards as if addressing the heavens. "But such a cruel fate! One I have had the dubious pleasure of receiving quite a few times, but still!" Blindfolding a cat, though. That was something that he wouldn't be trying soon. They had too many pointy bits to do so without a great deal of bloodloss.
"Hmm, well, that depends on where it falls." He replied after a moment of thinking. "Because having it fall on your head wouldn't be much fun..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:58 am
Guinevere nodded gravely. "Yes, that's why I'm changing mine." she explained. "And have you really been sent to your room for no good reason?" Maybe all guardian-child relationships were dictatorships. She smelled a conspiracy. "Pucci was easy to blindfold. Much easier than it was trying to paint him black or jump off the roof with him or teach him how to speak."
"But the sky isn't heavy!" Guinevere exclaimed. "You could have it all fall right now and you and I would still be right as rain." She waved her hand up in the air as an example. "See? Or at least that's what my science book says." But at that moment she had remembered who Lind was and with an exclamation said "But you're a Viking!"
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:16 pm
"Yessss, though I usually just escaped from the window most of the time..." Okay, so he wasn't the best role model ever. "...You tried to paint your cat black?" Lind asked incredulously, "That must be one patient cat you have."
He nodded as he listened to her explanation, "But!" he exclaimed when she finished, "There are birds and planes and...witches and stuff in the sky! They might fall on you." His hand gestured widely at the sky to emphasize his point. "Besides, have you ever been up there to see if it's true?"
A viking! "Ah! Seen through my disguise!"
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:29 pm
"I sit in my closet usually." replied Guinevere. "And yes, I did. He got away though and I only got a paw black." She sounded regretful. "I don't know about my cat." she said uncertainly. "He acts strange." It was true that from what she read about cats Pucci acted unusual. It wasn't that he didn't act like a cat, but he acted like he was TRYING to act like a cat. "I think he's pretending to be a cat but is secretly a cat that isn't a cat. I mean, he's definitely a cat, but I feel like he isn't also." Oooo, that was confsuing when she said it out loud. She changed the subject.
"But it's obvious the sky isn't heavy or we'd all be crushed anyway because sky extends to the ground. Otherwise we'd have no air to breathe. And I'm a witch and you don't see me gallivanting around in the sky." she said indignantly. "Anyway, you only said the sky falling on one's head, not the sky and everything in it."
"Yes." Guinevere said. "I believe I've made your accquaintence before." Thoughtfully, she added, "Though you were less of a conversationalist then." Guinevere realized that she had assumed they were the same age before but he must be older.
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:25 pm
"Well, he doesn't have to be black, I mean, I can't see why it's color would affect anything." Lind said. But most witch's cats were depicted as black...."All cats," he added sagely, "are strange. Walking around and knocking things over and acting like they had nothing to do with it and looking at you and never blinking..." Yeah, that part was a bit creepy.
"Magic!" he proclaimed with another wave of his arm. "You never know, magic and science could be exactly the same thing, just labeled differently!" he, clearly, wasn't too sure about this much, but he just liked arguing for arguments sake. "And maybe magic keeps the sky up, and science lets the air in...or something." Okay, he might be stretching it abit..
"But if the sky fell, wouldn't it make sense that everything in it would fall too? I mean, if you drop a box, the stuff in the box drops with it."
"Well, I had to keep the whole stoic silent thing going, right?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:39 pm
Guinevere shook her head. "Black is proper." she said primly. "I haven't met many cats." she replied. "But I've read about them. Pucci never stares though... He's not very interested."
"But magic and science are in complete disagreement!" Guinevere said adamantly. "They can't be the same... And maybe the sky is like a table and if it toppled they'd just end up being in space instead." The final frontier. She nodded. This sounded right to her.
"You had more of a cute, cheerful thing going in my opinion." Guinevere responded truthfully. "But I'm new at the whole stoic identifying thing..."
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