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 Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 7:29 pm
Due to manifests being so very new, a manifest hatching with a disability was new territory. It was especially new territory when there wasn't a guardian already chosen. Not entirely sure how to handle that possibility, the DreamAway techs had to think fast. So, they pulled a few strings so another manifest hatched shortly after of the same type, and a suitable seeming temperament. The system was still new but it was successful enough in hatching Tuala, a lanky and quiet boy of Sekotta's age to be his 'roommate' of sorts. His main link to outside caregivers.
Tuala, being slightly unstably hatched, had oversized wings, spots here and there, pale skin, and was a little too tall and lanky for his age, but was otherwise rather healthy. So he was taken to be introduced to the presently heavily monitored by technicians raven totem.
The techs immediately left the two alone in the same room and went to observe in the usual security stations.
Tualla fluffed his wings a bit nervously and scratched at his arm, "Um...hi." he greeted the blind boy, doing his best to not be awkward, but failing just a bit.
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 12:52 am
Sekkota, Sekkota, that was the name but he hated hearing it, and they'd kept calling him that but it made him so... sad. So he'd been given another. Zerachiel. And now they were doing something... giving him a place to stay.
And do what, he wasn't sure. Everything was confusing, his mind disobeyed every attempt to make sense of the matter of his existence.
He had nothing but sound and touch, and he knew he was alone... maybe. Until that voice arose, and he flinched inward some, hunching shoulders.
"H... hello."
He wasn't at all new to being spoken to, he'd just... failed to sense this one come upon him. He would try to be nice at least, even if he could barely come above a whisper. Words that didn't make sense kept trying to impose on the greeting. Ifyiirsi aledna, omero, ubhildi iqa.
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 12:55 am
"I'm Tuala. I was sent here to be your roommate. So you'd have someone to help you with things..."
He watched the odd little mouthing but ignored it, his own antennae bouncing and wiggling as he studied the room. "Have they fed your or anything yet? Or like...anything? They said you couldn't see things."
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:10 am
Roommate? What?
Oh, someone to help...?
"... oh... I... well it'd be nice..." His fingers interlaced, gently. "... fed? ... I don't know. There's been a lot of talking and moving me around..."
He swayed a bit as if to emphasize, the skeletal wings creaking and pulling against his back some.
"... just all confusing. There's a lot. ... a lot."
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:12 am
Tuala looked to him with sympathy. That had to suck really. He'd at least been hatched soon for a purpose. The chocolate haired boy - not that Zera could see it - lightly took one of Zera's hands so the boy could feel what his were like.
"Here, I um...I dunno much about this but I guess since you can't see me I should get you familiar with me guiding you about or something?" he suggested, "I'll get them to bring us food soon."
He put his other hand on Zera's shoulder, a bit above his wings and guided him towards a chair. "Just sit for a bit."
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:21 am
Having his hand taken, he was a bit startled at first, but he whispered a little "okay" and followed Tuala's lead. He might've smiled a bit faintly, but it was fleeting.
He sat carefully, though he felt like shrinking back down again as he did. Hands slipped to the chair beneath him, ran along it in assessing touches. Steady enough, whatever he was on. Seating implement.
"... thank you." He whispered it once, but mouthed it again, then in the strange tongue that filled his mind.
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:26 am
"Yeah, sure." Tuala agreed and wandered away a bit, his wings making a tsh-tsh-tsss shuffly noise as they dragged across the ground behind him, getting more distant, moving this way and that.
The taller boy looked through the cabinets for what was stocked for them and finally returned. It was a new apartment after all.
"What name do you want me to use? They said you had two." he asked, looking over the list of foods that could be brought up as dinner for them. They were rather basic but he was doing his bets to comprehend the types and the concepts were coming quickly.
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:32 am
The sound of Tuala's wings drew a curious little sound from Zera as they led away, his head canting some, aiming his hearing toward it. He could hear rummaging; clink, clack. Thud. Thud? Different sounds...
Two names. Yes. Zera shrank back some, his head canting the other way slowly. "... mmh. I... Zerachiel."
He stumbled over the name, but he hadn't wanted to repeat the other. So sad... so sad.
"... Zera for short is okay... I... didn't give it when you gave yours, I'm sorry." One hand lifted to his face, pawing gently at his own cheek, almost a calming gesture for himself. "So much."
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:46 am
Tuala blinked a bit and reached over to pet his cheek with a fingertip curiously, "Um, does your face hurt? Do you have something on it? Are you ok?" he asked curiously and sort of stroked his cheek at the same time as poking it.
Shrugging it off, the boy wiggled his antennae, "Ok Zera, what kind of food do you like do you know yet or do we just wanna guess cause you're like a bird thing? They have suggestions."
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 6:25 pm
Zera's brows lifted a bit curiously. "... Uh? Oh... no..." his hand lowered, running along his neck to rest at his own collarbone. "No, it's okay. It's just... it's soothing some."
A little smile broke at Tuala's touches, as if the effect had amplified. He brought the other hand to fiddle with the one that was raised some. "I... don't know, yet... they gave me one that smelled pretty good but I wasn't hungry, what was it... I don't know... pomma... thing. I can't remember the word."
Eyelids lowered as he mouthed the name of it in his mysterious tongue. Dafhidi.
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 2:10 pm
"Pomegranate?" he suggested, lightly poking Zera's cheek again and petting on it since he seemed to like that. "Did you eat it or just leave it somewhere?"
Probably best to figure out what the other kid liked for food - or if he even got hungry. That might do some good at least. Tuala fanned his wings a bit and shifted his weight from foot to foot. This was kind of confusing!
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 8:56 pm
Zera's face brightened some, both having his face poked and the word being recalled. "That was it! It smelled beautiful... but I didn't get to have any yet. They put it away for later."
Not that he was particularly hungry... he didn't really know what to make of that sensation. Sort of just an uncomfortable stomach. Nothing like real hunger yet...
The shuffling of wings and weight could be sensed somewhat, and Zera's head canted, curiously. What was Tuala doing? He couldn't figure out that sound at all...
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 9:01 pm
"Oh. Did you want to try some of it now? Just a snack?" he suggested, not really sure what to do about that.
The boy turned again and his wings bumped into Zera a little bit. Then they left with that sound again. Going to search in the fridge a bit, he managed to find the item and bring it out again. He headed over with the treat to hold it out to Zera. He noticed the little bit of white sparkly dust on his cheek and blinked.
"Ack, sorry, did I hit you in the face?" He brushed the stuff off again.
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:17 am
A little squeak not unlike a ravenly croak escaped the boy as he was bumped into by what he couldn't fathom the nature of. Didn't feel like any body part he was exposed to thus far. As the fragrant fruit was given to him he was pondering it over, head twisting to the side and brow furrowing deeply.
"... yes, but with what?" His mouth twisted into a bemused sort of pout. "It didn't hurt, it's okay, but..."
The pomegranate turned over in his hands, fingertips feeling it out and exploring its shape. Like a ball with a bellybutton... but how was he supposed to eat it? The skin felt so rough, and one of the technicians had mentioned someone had to "open" it for him... maybe he'd be content to just smell it for now.
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Nicolai Vorona Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 4:00 pm
Tuala blinked a bit - both at the confusion and at Zera not seeming to even know what to do with the fruit. Hadn't they even bothered showing him how to do it without seeing it?
"Oh um, here, I'll open that." Tuala took it back and set it out to open the thing. He had to turn around a bit to look for something to cut it with and bumping into Zera a few more times with his wings, leaving a soft 'whap' to them and the usual noise as they scrapped along the floor.
"Ack! Sorry again! Those are my wings and they're big and I can't do anything with them mainly." Tuala blushed and just got to mumbling about them being a pain as he fumbled about cutting just the top off the fruit and slicing it a bit so that the seeds weren't damaged but he could pull down the 'slices' and eat it.
"Um here." the boy carefully handed Zera one of the parts. "Hope that works?"
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