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 Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:44 pm
Yay! Ani was coming over! Flitch was happy. But, he was always happy at the thought of having his friends come over. No matter! Ani was coming over!
Happily the blue-haired Sin' bounced around the house, ignoring his brother Kuzunohara's complaints as to his hyperness. Bah. Kuzu was always hyper himself. Plus, Flitch was busy making sure that everything was just right. Anvion had said that she might take them to the playground if Ani wanted to go. What fun!
But before that, he had built a cool fort out of the couch cushions, his sheets from his bed, and a few books to hold it in place. He was rather proud of his work, since he had made it all himself. Hopefully Ani would want to play something involving his fort. Like pirates! He loved playing pirates. Just... not the really mean pirates. But the fun pirates always going on neat adventures were cool. He was gonna be a cool pirate like that someday, or so he hoped.
Now that the fort was finished and Flitch had finished his seventh inspection of the house to make sure that everything was perfect (which it was, thankfully), Flitch wandered into the kitchen, plopping down into the chair so that he could stare out over the front lawn. Ani was going to be over soon, and he wanted to be able to see her coming. He was so excited...
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:00 pm
"I'll be over to pick you up soon!" Kiita said to the newly grown Anisia, giving her a kiss on the cheek and a wave goodbye.
It was obvious. Ani was in a good mood. A really good mood. She gave her protector a cheery smile and waved back, "Bye!" Then she turned around and walked up to Anvion's door and knocked on the door. She took a small step back and waited patiently for someone to answer.
Their last playdate had ended unexpectedly. She hoped they would get to play something this time. Something fun. But Flitch was just a fun kid to be around, so that shouldn't be too hard.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:08 pm
Ani was heeeeeeeeere!
Darting off the chair so fast that he almost tipped it over, Flitch shot to the door, opening it and grinning broadly. "Aniii! Woah..." he paused, realizing that she was now much taller than he was. He stared at her in momentary awe, then grinned excitedly. "You got bigger! Neat! How'd you do that?"
He opened the door wider, so that she could come in. "Come in!" Now he was even more excited than before, if such a thing were possible. Ani looked so cool and pretty now! It was awesome. Really awesome.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:26 pm
"I played the flute!" Anisia answered with a laugh, entering Flitch's house, "How've you been? Do anything neat while I was gone? Read any good books?" She asked with a smile. "Oh! And do you still not like cookies?" The cinnamon girl added. She felt like she hadn't talked to him in so long, she wanted to know everything that has changed and what hasn't!
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:42 pm
"Really? Wow!" Flitch beamed. "So you must have played a magic flute! I read a book once with a magic flute in it. It was pretty neat."
At the mention of cookies, he wrinkled his nose and made a face. "Eeew, cookies. They're so sugary it's gross. Oh, and I read a bunch of cool books! Anvion has so many I think I'll never run out. She's read them all, though. I don't know how she managed to read so many... You wanna see all the books? We have to be kinda quiet if I show you, though. Anvion's working right now."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:49 pm
"Oh, I'm not sure if it was magic. If it was, I don't see how it could make me grow, because I played it really bad. I kept making it squeak and it didn't sound like a song at all." Anisia said with a small wince. Well, she grew. And thats all that mattered right now!
"I can't believe you don't like cookies still! They're so yummy...they're warm and good with milk...and sweet." She continued, then gave a small chuckle. He'll learn to like them. Ani'll make him see, one day!
"Sure! Does Anvi own a library or something?" Anisia asked. Flitch was smart. He could read already. She couldn't read or write well yet. Kiita told her she'd be learning how to soon though.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:08 pm
Flitch nodded. "Yeah. It's pretty big, and there's about a million books in there! I think Varlen put magic on the room to make it really big. Like THIS big!"
He held his arms out as far as they could go, so that he could proplerly emphasize the size of the library. "I've got some books in my room too, but only one bookshelf. Anvion has a lot!" he giggled. "If Anvion lets us, we can go exploring in it. Does that sound fun?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:11 pm
"Whoa. And Anvion read them ALL?" Anisia giggled a little as Flitch spread his arms out. "Thats real big. I always thought Kiita read a lot of books, but she doesn't own a library!" It was true. She could usually find her protector absorbed in a thick book for hours on end...and she usually finished them in a day or two too. "Sounds fun to me! Where's Anvi at?" She said with a smile.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:21 pm
Flitch grinned, taking Ani's hand. "I can show you. It's upstairs! Anvion should be in there, too." He led her through the front hall to the stairs. From there he took her tot he second story and to the end of that hall pointing out where all the doors led along the way. "That's Anvion's room... There's my room. That's Kuzu's room, but he's out today. He's my big brother, but I don't like him much."
He stopped at the door at the hall's end, releasing his grasp on Ani's hand. The door looked fairly small, like the room on the other side was barely bigger than a closet. He grinned. "This is it." He pushed the door open, stepping in and peering about for Anvion. Aside from a good-sized desk that sat about ten feet across from the door, the room seemed to be filled with nothing other than book cases. Big ones. They spread just about as far as one could see no matter where you looked. It was huge, bigger than the actual house itself. Flitch beamed. "See? It's cool, isn't it?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:38 pm
Anisia curled her hand around Flitch's and let him lead the way with a smile. Her smile became a little faint as he mentioned how he didn't like his older brother much, "How come you don't like him?" She asked as they continued on their way.
That door was tiny. Surely it couldn't hold such a "-WOW!" Ani's mouth gaped open for a bit, "How could...the door was so small...gosh!" She stepped in and gazed about in awe. "Theres got to be hundreds of books in here!" She exclaimed. Her eyes were bright as she took it in.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:55 pm
Flitch gave a small offhand shrug. "Kuzu pesters me a lot. He's really loud, too. And he... 'hits on' girls." Flitch was unfamiliar with the term, but that's what Anvion said he did a lot. That would explain why he was always bringing weird girls over. But he didn't hit them. Did he? Flitch didn't know, but the thought of hitting a girl was very unappealing. Flitch didn't like hitting in general, and hitting on sounded pretty bad.
Once Ani saw the library, though, his characteristic grin spit back across his face. "It's neat, huh? I don't know how Anvion managed to read them all, either."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:03 pm
'Hits on girls?' The phrase made Anisia frown a little, but she shrugged it off. Whatever it meant, it didn't sound nice. She had a feeling of relief she hadn't met Flitch's brother yet. Those words made her want to avoid meeting his brother now...
"It really is! I could probably get lost in this place." Ani said with a laugh. She looked to Flitch with a smile, "What types of books do you read? Can you read the really big ones with lots of pages?" She asked curiously, beginning to walk to the nearest shelf to see if she could find out what kinds of books there were.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:11 pm
"I can sometimes," he said. "but sometimes the words are too big and it confuses me. Or it's just written funny so that I can't understand it." He followed her, his own gaze sweeoing the titles. Most of the books were collections of fairy tales, myths, and legends, which were usually really fun to read. Anvion had told him that she was collecting and recording them. why, he didn't know. Some of the books were magic too, which was neat. But Anvion never let him try out anything in the magic books. She said that they could be dangerous.
"I'lll read anything, really," he admitted. "As long as it's not boring. Boring things aren't fun. They're... boring." he shrugged sheepishly at the remark. "Good thing Anvion has lots of cool things. You can borrow a few if you want."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:33 pm
"I can't even read yet! Well, not really anyway. Would you teach me, Flitch?" It felt a little funny, asking him to help her when she was technically the older one. But learning by Flitch would certainly be a lot more fun than learning by Kiita! Kiita had things to tend to around the house anyway. Flitch has got to be one of the smartest Sin...well, out of the ones she knew. "What book would you reccomend me trying to read first?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:09 pm
"Really?" Flitch was surprised. He had a small tendency to forget that he was the most literay-inclined Sin' as of yet. There probably weren't any Sin' that could read as well as he could. But the request for him to teach her how to read sounded appealing. Flitch smiled and nodded. "Sure I can teach you. Reading's pretty easy, actually..."
Now, the perfect starting book. Flitch scanned the bookshelf, mildly frowning. Hmm. Not that one... no, not that. Ha! Found it. Smiling, he pulled out a good fairytale book out from some book written in Evish and a heavy leatherbound book. "Here we go!" he exclaimed happily, holding the book out so Ani could see. "It's a fairytale book. And it's got pictures too, so you can help see what's going on if the words get to be too hard."
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