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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:29 pm
It was cold.
That was all Aletea could really say on that matter, as she entered the mansion. Of course, it was December, so she should have been expecting it. It didn't seem like Aurelia shared her distasteful views of the cold however, as the little wiggling bundle in her arms obviously wanted down. They entered the living room, and Aletea put Lia on the ground with a sigh.
"Alright, you're out of our house; go have fun."
Lia was just getting over a cold, and during that time, her guardian had been a bit...overprotective. The little corn child hadn't been allowed outside - and being cooped up in the same place for a few days was enough to cause plenty of temper tantrums.
Lia looked around, as Aletea settled onto the couch, to see if there was anything interesting...
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:44 pm
Hearing the sound of the door clicking shut, Lex came down the stairs, but was met by no greeting, or sight of anyone there. Frowning, his forehead creasing, he thumped down the rest of the stairs, opening the door. He stared outside with a face of stone as the cold wind whipped by him. He didn't mind the cold. In fact, he liked it. But there was no one there.
He shut the door, turning around, then heard something from the living room. He tip-toed around the corner, his eyes resting on Aletea and Aurelia. The little ice Sin'aeis could think of nothing else to do than stare at them for a moment. Who were they? He'd never seen this baby before. This was confusing and annoying. Why had he never met them? Lex scowled. Who cares, he hated company. He glared over at the pair from behind a chair, eyeing them suspiciously.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:53 pm
Letting her eyes drift across the room, she noticed something over a chair - eyes? While her baby mind debated the possibility of a chair having eyes (she'd never seen it, but there were a lot of things she'd never seen), she crawled towards it with a gurgle of delight. Something new!
As she rounded the chair and saw someone, however, she felt a little disapointed - the chair didn't have eyes afterall. Lia couldn't help but think it'd be fun to have a chair as a friend. But, she told herself as she brightened her mood, at least it was a person; people were friendly! ...too the extent of her experience, anyway. She had yet to meet anyone who actually showed their dislike.
A wide grin broke out across her face, and she crowed her happiness to the new person.
"Hiii!"
((Heh...hyperactive baby vs. cold toddler.))
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:58 pm
(( xd Yaaaay.))
Lex eyed the baby, one brow quirked. Hi? What was this baby, anyways? Why were all these babies so happy all the time? He remembered when he was a baby...he was never happy, he was always terrorizing, and people always thought he was a cute little baby before they were proven wrong. He had to repress a smirk at the thought. But this baby, she just came up and said hi? He eyed her, then folded his arms, considering her. Well, she could be good for corrupting. Most innocent babies were. He could give it a shot.
"Hello," he said dully back to her, still looking disdainfully down at Aurelia. What element was she...corn? Yes, corn. Ick. Vegetables. He preferred the bird types. They were usually crueller. But like he had thought, corruption. Bwah. Evil plans.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:06 pm
((*snicker* I was guessing a personality conflict, but corruption works too.))
Normally, Aurelia wouldn't have been this perky; but after being cooped up for so long, she was ready to run-crawl- wild. So, immediately after the 'greeting' was done, she began to ramble on in nonsense words. She had taken no notice of the tone, just that he had responded. Occasionally, a real word would slip into her nonsense ones - it still remained very confusing, though.
And about halfway through all that, her eyes landed upon the crystals on Lex's forehead. Now, Lex didn't know Lia - so he wouldn't know her fascination with sparkly things...and those crystals happily fit into her obsession.
Letting out another cry of happiness, she reached up towards the crystals. Of course, she didn't realize she couldn't take take them - she'd grabbed sparkly things in stores occasionally, and her guardian had bought them for her. So she figured that they were...removable.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:22 pm
Lex flinched, his face contorting as she reached up for the crystal. Immediately he stepped back, his lip curled. "Don't. Touch," he said in a low growl, his fists clenched. Relax, he told himself, it's only a baby. It can't do anything anyways, he said, shutting his eyes momentarily. When he opened them, their ice blue colors were blazing. "NEVER touch," he said, shaking his head. Normally he would beat the living snot out of the baby. But it was a baby. And it was a girl. That would be...pointless, and very stupid, considering pirate guy was around somewhere.
His desire to corrupt the baby had dimmed somewhat. First she babbled at him, then did the unthinkable and grabbed for his crystals. He hated that. Almost more than anything. Trying to take his mind off it, he pulled his radio out of his pocket, setting it on the ground and sitting down by it, tuning it and adjusting the antenna. "S'a radio," he said without looking up at Aurelia.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:34 pm
Lia drew back upon Lex becoming angry - she had problems with the whole 'cause and effect' sort of thing (i.e. she breaks something, and her guardian scolds her), but she got this. This was far more frightening then anything her guardian had been like; her eyes grew wide, and her rambling stopped. If she had been in any less of a good mood that day, she probobly would have started crying.
Then when Lex growled two words at her, she pieced them together - she'd heard that combination before, though she had yet to realize what it meant. Well, now she knew. Before, she had always grabbed at anything (or anyone) that caught her interest; that obviously wasn't going to work with this one.
Then the older boy pulled something out of his pocket, setting it on the floor. He spoke another couple words, and she glanced nervously between him and the radio. The music coming from the radio intrigued her, but her new nervousness around Lex made her uncertain.
"Rahd-oh?"
The corn girl hesitantly reached out towards the radio, watching Lex intently to see if there was a reaction like before. Even with being nervous, she still explored quite a bit.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:57 pm
Other than glancing up and continuing to tune the radio, Lex made no movements towards her. He could tell his message had come across loud and clear though, and for that he was glad. It wasn't very often that babies got what you said, and considering his mood he was happy he didn't need to go into it. Then again, he was never in the mood for going into it.
The radio was barely emitting music, but mostly fuzz and whtie noise. He scowled at it. "Must be some electrical current blocking my reception," he murmured, more to himself than to Aurelia. Pulling a short claw out of his pocket with an odd mechanism fastened to it, he pulled it out to it's full extent. Walking to the wall, he removed a piece of it that he had obviously previously drilled out and disguised with some colored puddy. He slipped the claw in, peering through a small scope on the top. There was a popping sound, and an outlet in the corner made a fizzing noise and then stopped. Lex smirked, pulling the claw out and replacing the wall piece. The radio was now playing loud and crystal clear. Lex went back to tuning it, looking for the right station.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:08 pm
Aurelia slowly began to relax as Lex didn't get angry again. Then her nervousness turned to curiousity, as the boy began to fiddle with the wall, with that strange little tool. Her still-wide eyes took in that he actually opened up a little hole in the wall - being as young as she was, she didn't really notice much on how it was done. All she knew, was that Lex opened up the wall, poked around in it, and then the 'radio' was playing louder then before.
Then as he began to tune the radio, she gazed over the radio, uncertain of what most of those buttons did. She'd seen her guardian work one before, but hadn't really gotten an idea of what did what. So while Lex was focused on tuning it, she reached out cautiously - shooting glances out of the corner of her eyes at him - and pushed a button.
She wasn't really sure what it would do - and it didn't actually seem to do anything, as far as she knew. Lia's brow wrinkled in confusion, and she gave a suspicious glance at the radio; it wasn't cooperating.
The corn girl had almost completely forgotten about Lex again, with this new puzzle before her.
((Gotta love that short attention span >.>))
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:32 pm
Lex watched, pausing in his tuning as she tentatively reached out and jabbed at a button. He chuckled, shaking his head. "S'broken," he explained, not expecting her to understand but feeling he should state it anyways. "So're those," he said, referring to a couple more buttons, though one hardly needing pointing to, as the button piece itself was missing completely. "These do," he said, pressing a few. One changed from AM to FM, and the other turned it off completely, and for a moment, the room was silent. Lex glanced at her again, then pressed the button, and continued tuning.
He finally settled on a station with a slow guitar in the background, accompanied by a slow, soothing voice. Kind of a slow rock song, but Lex was in the mood for it. "What's your name anyways?" he said, trying to fix a screw but nodding towards Aurelia.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:31 pm
Aurelia watched Lex work the buttons curiously, not understanding his words in the least. As he pushed the working buttons, her eyes lit up: he knew how to work the radio! She had seen her guardian work them before, and tended to associate being able to work electronics with adults - anyone who wasn't an adult and could work them gained her respect. Well, so much as a baby could have - which admittedly wasn't much.
She reached up and began twisting her leaves as she worked through his next sentance. The corn girl hadn't understood most of it. Her entire demeaner brightened however, as she caught a word she knew: name. And thus she happily chirped her response to the other boy.
"Lia!"
Then the baby paused, and began to muse over something. She was beginning to wonder what the boys name was. Normally, she gave 'titles' to people to remember them by - (i.e. 'feathers-girl', 'guardians-friend'), but lately she had begun to like having other names to know them by; at least then she'd understand who her guardian was talking about a bit more.
So then the little girl began to struggle to form a sentance - though most of it came out garbled. All that was really audible, was 'name'...
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:32 pm
Lia... he thought. Probably an abreviation, like his name. He preferred Lex, though he had heard pirate guy call him "Alexander" or something once. He liked Lex better, though. "Alexander" was far too long for his liking. He eyed her. Lia fit. He quirked a brow as she babbled out a sentence to him. All he caught was name. She wanted his name.
"I'm Lex," he said, pointing to himself hesitantly. He had just grown from a baby and he still didn't know how to talk to them. He had generally been able to make coherent sentences as a baby. Then again, he was a genuis, he thought with a little smirk to himself. He eyed her curiously. "Who's your guardian?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:19 pm
Aurelia nibbled on her lip, as she tried to figure out how to pronounce it. She had heard her guardians name before - she just didn't say it. Then, hestitantly opening her mouth, she ventured a try - garbled as it was, at least it was somewhat close to the name, "Letya."
Aletea, who had been close to dozing on the warmth of the couch, returned to awareness as she thought she heard her name spoken. Then after a quick glance over the room, she noticed a distinct lack of a little leafy girl - though she could hear a radio from behind the chair, and hear talking. Walking over and peeking over the chair, she grinned; it looked like Lia had found someone to play with, at least.
Happening to look up, a grin broke out across her face and she pointed happily. Then, speaking again, "Letya!"
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:44 pm
Lex tried to sort out who the hell "Letya" was, but before he had time to think through who it could be, a face appeared above the chair, and the baby screeched out the name again. Lex jumped visibly, falling over backwards and staring wide-eyed at the woman. When had she gotten there?!! How long had she been?! Breathing hard, Lex continued to stare at her for a long time, suspcious. But was she "Letya"? Probably. If she was Lia's guardian, then there was no need to fuss.
"Letya?" he repeated, nodding to see if the woman recognized the name. Just to make sure. In Lex's opinion, you could never be too sure of anything. Everything had to be proven again and again. He was a bit of a scientist, after all.
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