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 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:22 pm
'Twas evening, and the sun had already descended beneath the horizon. The air was cool and crisp, somewhere between the cold of Winter and the warmth of Spring. A faint breeze blew every so often, added just a degree or two of chill.
Zinnia was taking a stroll through the woods. She was thinking at the moment about topics ranging from daily life to the horror movie she was making. Wrapped up in her internal thoughts, she was half-unaware of her surrroundings.(It keeps eating my post! mad )
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:27 pm
Itomaru has just awoken from his daytime slumber when he heard some footsteps from below. He quietly crept between the partially frosted leaves, wanting to know who would be out at this time of night. A small happiness arose from him as he noticed to bright orange of Zinnia standing out so boldly against the gray of the forest, and he stared at her as she walked, not wanting to be rude as to interrupt her in her thoughts.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:36 pm
Zinnia continued to stroll until the familiar feeling of being watched interrupted. For most namrah it was likely a creepy or unnerving feeling, but to Zinnia it was no problem, for she knew that it was due to a good friend of hers. She stopped walking and looked up, seeing the familiar red, yellow, and purple markings. "Good evening Itomaru!" She called up with a smile.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:43 pm
Itomaru smiled, his large fangs protruding from his mouth, as she called up to him. He knocked some leaves off of the branches as he jumped down, only to be blown away by a gust of wind. He bowed in the normal, formal manner that they were accustomed to, before saying his common saying, "Well good evening, Miss Zinnia."
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:49 pm
"Good evening, Itomaru," replied Zinnia with a smile. She recalled how she was surprised by his formality when they had first met, but by this point she had grown rather used to it. "So how are you?" She continued, used to this sequence of lines to begin a conversation with a friend. It was a habit she happened to pick up from being one of the namrah that live nearby Sara.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:54 pm
Itomaru chuckled a little as he straightened up from his bow, enjoying how predictably they had both become. "I am pleasant, as usual," He said as he picked a lunar flower off the ground, smiling at it's white beauty. "Is there anything that sparks your interests tonight Miss Zinnia?" he asked as he watched the flower grow brown and crumble in his hands as it's life was sucked out.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:00 pm
Zinnia thought of things she might want to do as she watched the flower die. What would she like to do tonight? She really didn't have any plans for tonight. After a few moments of thought something finally struck her interest. "Maybe we could just hang out until the sun starts to come up. Then we can go up in the tree and see the sunrise you were telling me about." She awaited his response, wondering what he thought of it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:07 pm
Itomaru smiled softly as the flower shriveled up, then fell down in bits of dust. "Yes, that would make a very enjoyable evening," he agreed as he rubbed the last of he dust off of his fingers and into the air. He just stood there for a long time after that, looking from Zinnia, to the flowers, and then the moon which was mostly concealed by the clouds. He wasn't much of a conversation started, so he waited for Zinnia to say something.
(what kind of moon should be behind the clouds? xD)
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:13 pm
(Well, it shouldn't be full, I know that much. xd If we can get away with a blue moon that is also not a full moon that would be good, otherwise it could be a crescent like the one in the locket Zinnia has. biggrin )
"It's nice out." Zinnia commented, mostly to break the silence. She didn't want to talk about the weather though, so she thought of better topics of conversation. One thing stuck out as something interesting to inquire about. "So how did you do that with the flower?" she asked, curious about the answer.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:21 pm
Itomaru looked at his now empty hand, trying to figure out a way to explain how he had dried up the flower. "I just picked it, and then lusted for the flowers life force to become mine. As I thought that, it shriveled up as it's life drained from it's pedals, it's leaves, it's stem. They crumbled up, dead. It's much like drinking blood in a way, a frightening power really," said as he picked another lunar flower, and once again drained it of it's life.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:27 pm
"I think it's kinda neat," replied Zinnia as he drained yet another flower. She wondered vaguely what his limit was for stealing life force. Could he use it on namrah, or only on plants and smaller animals? Once again she was void of conversation topics, so she shared a random yet slightly related detail. "Did you know that I'm named after a flower?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:36 pm
Itomaru smiled at Zinnia as the remnants of the last flower blew away. "No, I did not know that. It must be quite the pretty flower for you to be named after it, Miss Zinnia," he said as he looked around, trying, but unable to come up with a conversation topic.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:02 pm
"Well, to be honest Sara just named me Zinnia because it was a pretty name," replied Zinnia. She remembered asking Sara after she saw a nice, pink Zinnia in a picture one day. She had wondered why she was named after a flower she didn't resemble in the least. Though later on she did manage to track down a picture of an orange Zinnia that was much more fitting. "Though it kinda fits if you look at the right one. I remember one day I showed a picture of an orange one to a human and she said that it reminded her of Halloween." That was the big thing for her: the Halloween connotation. If somebody could look at a flower and think Halloween then Zinnia didn't mind being named after it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:00 pm
Itomaru nodded as he listened to Zinnia. "Yeah, Halloween sounds like quite a fun time of the year, I can only imagine though," he sighed, before continuing. "I really haven't been told why I was named Itomaru. In fact, Dai told me that it took her the longest out of any of her namrah to remember my name." He chuckled a little to himself, before looking up once more to notice the clouds reveal a white crescent moon behind them.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:09 pm
"You'll get to see Halloween, I guarantee it. And when it starts to get about that time of year I'll be sure to fill you in on everything I know about the holiday." She smiled, and continued on, "I like your name though. It sounds cool." She looked up at the sky when Itomaru did, and frowned as if she was trying to recall something. "Hey...isn't that the same kind of moon the locket was modeled after?"
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