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 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:20 pm
"Mum, do we not have enough kids in this house? Do you have to volunteer to babysit another?" Kayce inquired, her usually inexpressive face demonstrating a clear dislike. The fae watched her mother put the baby down for a nap and then followed Amyla out of the living room and down towards the kitchen.
Amyla rolled her eyes and bit back a sigh. "Kayce, just because you don't like strangers does not mean that we can't be good and polite people. Besides, this child is from the same place as Eowyn. Isn't that something positive?" she asked rhetorically. Truth be told, she hadn't really known what to expect when the woman had called her and asked her to babysit her Kybernetik for the day. Apparently she had gotten the number from the doctor (which didn't shock Amyla in the least). Amyla didn't mind taking the child for the day. She was just a bit nervous that she didn't know the child... or the guardian.
Seeing that her protests would not change the situation, Kayce exited the room, though her shadow remained in the room, watching their mother closely. "When they will be here?" Eowyn asked, quietly taking an apple from the fruitbowl on the table and beginning to nibble on it. She honestly didn't want to have an invader in the house, but she was less bold than Kayce about voicing her dislike.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:46 pm
A large, black, vintage model car pulled into the driveway, rumbling to a halt when the engine was carefully shut off. A small woman with short brown hair in her twenties got out of the driver's side, and a small girl with blue hair bolted out from the passenger's side. They walked up to the door hand in hand, the woman knocking to come in.
"Are they nice, Perri?" the child asked.
"Doctor Brune says so. You be good and don't break anything."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:53 pm
Amyla was saved from having to make some trite, useless answer to Eowyn's question by the sound of a knock on the door. Flipping her long dark braid back over her shoulder, she made her way to the front door, Eowyn padding along behind her.
"May, were we expecting- oh yeah...." Aiodhan's voice echoed from upstairs, causing Amyla to chuckle as she unlatched the front door and opened it up. Forgetful idiot, that man.
"Hello! Perri, right?" she inquired, smiling at the two beings on her front porch. "Come on in."
Eowyn, about ten feet back from the door, nibbled silently on her apple, gray eyes narrowed slightly as she examined these two unexpected and unfamiliar people. It was too bad Amyla had confiscated her practice sword for the day. She had been looking forward to more practice with Kayce, and the confiscation of the sword, not to mention the visit of another child, put a serious crimp on her plans for the day.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:06 pm
"Yep. You must be Amyla." Perri said with a smile and an offered handshake once she and the little one stepped inside. "Thank you so much for watching her - I got called into the office for a client last minute and just couldn't say no."
Blue looked around the house, eyes immedately drawn to a girl about her age who seemed to be a kyber like her. "Hello! I'm Blue!" she called to the other one, hoping for a playmate.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:43 pm
"Yes. It's no problem at all. I know how work can take up a lot of your life. That's why I'm glad to still be on maternity leave," Amyla said wholeheartedly, taking the offered handshake and smiling down at Blue. "She's adorable. Anything in particular she likes to do?"
Eowyn just blinked and nodded, continuing to take bites out of her snack. Blue... what a silly name. What was she named for... her hair color? At least Eowyn's own name had some significance. It was a royal name, after all.
It dawned on Eowyn right at that moment that she was actually expected to play with this other girl. She paused in eating, her eyes wide. This was not expected. Or welcome. At all.
"Oh, there she is. This is Eowyn," Amyla said, finally spying the girl. She tried hard not to sigh at the somewhat accusatory look the kyber sent in her direction. Oh dear. Good thing she had confiscated that sword earlier.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:50 pm
"Practice with her remote control car and do research on fast vehicles." Perri explained, handing over a duffle bag that held some of her charge's toys and DVDs. "She knows that she's not supposed to use the car in the house."
Blue frowned at the other girl, not liking being ignored. Well, if she was going to be that way she could entertain herself easily enough. Deciding she'd work on her fellow kyber later, the child turned back to the new adult. "It's very nice to meet you Miss Amyla."
Perri smiled and gave the little one a quick hug. "Okay kid, I'm off. Don't break yourself."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:58 pm
Amyla grinned. Remote control car? She hadn't seen one of those in ages. "Sounds good to me. I'll make sure she has some space outside to practice if she wants to," she replied, taking the duffle bag. Now that Aiodhan had gotten off his lazy rear and fixed the back porch, it was remarkably level. Perhaps Blue would want to practice out there at some point. "It's nice to meet you as well, Blue," she said, delighted with such a well-mannered and friendly child. Why couldn't she get one of those sort of kids for once?!
If Eowyn had possessed fangs and the ability to do so, she likely would have growled. Instead, she settled for glowering at the people gathered in the foyer. The apple was now gnawed down to the core, and the kyber might a swift exit into the kitchen to dispose of it. Maybe if she got out of her mother's range of vision, Amyla would forget she was even there...
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:08 pm
Perri waved goodbye and ran to the car, starting it's rumble again and peeling out. She had three drops to make today in close succession, and if she was late on even one she'd never live it down. In this business, reputation was everything.
Blue watched the car lovingly as it pulled out and sighed before turning back to her host. "Is it okay if I watch some Transformers DVDs? Eowyn can come too but I don't think she likes me."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:19 pm
Amyla waved at Perri as she ran out. Poor woman. Closing the front door, she turned back to Blue and nodded an affirmative. "Of course. I'll show you where the TV is at. If you get hungry, I always have fruit sitting out on the kitchen table, or you can ask for something else. I've got just about every kind of food in this house. This family eats a lot," she chuckled before gesturing the girl toward the family room and pointing at the TV. "And don't feel badly about Eowyn. She doesn't like much of anybody."
No sooner had Amyla said that then Eowyn, who had been hoping to make an escape through the family room toward the stairs, emerged from the kitchen. Her look of deep thoughtfulness turned to one of mild irritation at the sight of her mother and the guest. Bah. Definitely no sword-practicing for her today.
"Ahhh, there you are. Would you like to show Blue how to work the TV?" Amyla queried, raising an eyebrow in Eowyn's direction.
The kyber very much wanted to say no, but she hadn't yet acquired the sense of bold independence that her elder, and even more irritable, sister had mastered. "Yes," she acquiesced before padding over to the television.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:29 pm
"Thank you." Blue murmured, not wanting to offer the girl politeness in return for bad treatment, but too bad and keeping a bad mood up for long to avoid it. "Have you ever watched Transformers? It's a lot of fun and about robots."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:36 pm
Sensing that the girls needed to work out the situation on their own, Amyla decided it best to take her leave for the moment. "I'll be in the kitchen if you girls need anything," she said before disappearing through another doorway. She had some bills to get caught up on, and at least from here, she could hear what was going in the other room.
"No," Eowyn responded simply in response to Blue's question. "I don't watch much television." Truth be told, she had never really been interested in it. Her interests seemed largely grouped in outdoor things: horseback riding, swordfighting, tree-climbing. The TV got boring. Quickly. She pushed a few buttons on the TV and DVD player and then frowned faintly. "Stupid Erin," she muttered before going on a round-the-room search for the remote, glancing under the coffee table and behind one of the chairs. "Hid the remote again."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:42 pm
"Who's Erin?" Blue asked, not sure where else to go with the conversation since the other girl didn't seem to be full of interaction or ideas. "We could do something else, if you wanted. What do you like to do?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:49 pm
"One of my sisters. She's little and likes to hurt people," Eowyn said, her voice slightly muffled as she looked behind the couch. "She wears pink, and she has a tail. Don't go near her." Her voice held a rather fervent note, unusual for her, as she had learned the hard way not to mess with Erin.
Suddenly, a shaped slab of gray, button-covered plastic came flying over the back of the couch to land on one of the cushions. A few moments later, Eowyn re-emerged, holding what seemed to be nothing but a big ball of gold and tan fur. "I ride with my sister. And we practice swordfighting," she said, though her tone conveyed a bit of bitterness. "But Mum took my sword away." She put the-- now it was moving-- ball of fur down on the couch and turned her flat gray gaze toward Blue. "Where's your movie?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:53 pm
Blue peered curiously at the ball, wondering what it was. "Is that a pet?" At the other girl's question she reached behind her and slipped a hand under her jacket, producing the case a moment later.
"Here, this one's my favorite. What do you ride? Motorcycles?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:21 pm
Eowyn followed the direction of Blue's gaze, realizing the other girl was asking about the furball she'd just put on the couch. "That's Sala," she said simply before taking the case from Blue and walking over to the DVD player to put it in. "No. Kayce's horse, Missy," she added by way of response to the second question. She closed the DVD slot and pressed play before wandering back to the couch. She picked up the gold and tan ball of fur and sat herself down. "You can sit on the couch."
Sensing that one-who-gives-attention was now holding her, the lion cub, who had previously been napping, uncurled her little body and picked up her head. She uttered a curious purring noise and then glanced over at Blue, blinking in sleepy bewilderment. Strange creatuers, those humanish things...
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