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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:31 am
It was, simply a lovely sunny day. So what better to make the use of it and go to the beach? Melody figured. She managed to cajole Lyallana into making a picnic basket for the outing (with, of course, not forgetting some puppy-eyed help from the three kids; Alora was getting past her shyness in the family).
So, now here they were, Gywn, Mereneth, Alora and Melody. Gywn declared a search for seashells and ran down the beach with a bucket in hand, her two ponytails bouncing in the air. Mereneth, wasn't in the mood for throwing fireballs(he had gotten over randomly throwing them anyway) and settled for attempting to make a sandcastle, scooping sand into the bucket using his bare hands, refusing to listen to Melody saying that he could instead, use a shovel.
Alora, after assurance from Melody that no shark would jump out and bite her, had walked down to the seashore and sat on the sand, the waves lapping at her feet. The little girl enjoyed this and sighed happily, smiling down at the white swimsuit her mother had bought for her.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:01 am
Out some distance from the shore and hidden mostly by the gentle curl of the waves silen was attempting to educate her reluctant son in the art of swimming. This had been a strictly mother and son affair so the rest of the family had been left at hom while the lesson was going on, beside Silen really didn't like the idea of what some of her other children might do to take advantage of poor Taren in his current state.
He tood on a rock that was submurged under the water but which had the effect of leaving his upper half above it. His gusrdian was backing away slowly holding out her arms and calling to him. Why? why would she do that? it was mean and he didn't want to swim he didn't like the wet. No icky. He extened his own arms encircle with the little blue floaties and called to her. "Mum, no come back I can't."
"You can, trust me Tarry you can." Silen said confidently, honestly somtimes that boy. "There is nothing in the water, and trust me moles can swim. so can people so it's just a case of learning." It was true, she'd done her reaserch and found that moles indeed could swim, it didn't mean they liked to but they could and he might need this skill one day. "okay on the count of three. Jump in and kick your legs and arms like I showed you." Maybe this was a little cruel but she was going for the mother bird approch, the way the mother bird taught her offpring to fly was to push them out of the nest. "one..." Taren was trembling still holding his arms out emploringly. "Two..." he took a teative step forward on the rock. "three! Jump tarry and swim." He jumped and he started to kick causing a mad splashing with his flailing. But slowl he started moving forward and was staying afloat.
Neither had noticed the others on the beach.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:52 am
(The more I look at this title, the more it seems to suck. xD *couln't think of a thing at that moment*)
When Alora had raised her head, she spotted two figures bobbing up and down on the waves. Squinting slightly, she couldn't really make out who these people were. All she knew was that she hadn't seen them before. The little one seemed to be trying to swim, what with kicking droplets of water up into the air.
She watched for a while, also keeping an eye on Gywn nearby, wanting to see if she had picked any pretty shells. Mereneth however, had put together a very messy wet lump of sand and declared it a castle by tying a piece of cloth he had found on a stick and sticking it in the middle of it. Melody smiled, watching the three. Yup, everything seemed to be pretty normal.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:07 am
Taren collapsed into his mothers ars and clungg to her squeaking and purring completly exsilerated and pleased with himself. "I did it, I did it." he squeaked panting slightly as his guardian laughed and heaped praises upon him. "See I knew you could." she said kissing his salty fur as she held him above the water.
However at that moment she noticed the boy's grip suddenly tighten alot around her arms and blinked. "What's the matter Taren?" she asked following the mole's gaze towards the shoreshe spotted what seemed to be a small family playing along the beach. She sighed, perfect. Taren would not want to try again now, he'd be todistracted and nervous about who they were. "come on then let's go and get you dried off." she said starting to walk towards the shore seeing a small extreamly white girl sitting nearest who seemed to be feathed? another D-corp child perhaps. "hello." she offered as Taren burried his head into her shoulder even though he was bigger than the girl he was still scared, she sighed, typical.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:17 am
The two figures were coming nearer, and as they did, Alora finally got a good look at them. One was a little boy with claws on his hands and one seemed to be his mommy.
"Hello." She replied, giving a small smile up at the mole boy.
Melody saw this and made her way to Alora, a little afraid that she might come to harm. But, as she got nearer, the other guardian seemed rather friendly, and she relaxed slightly.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:01 am
Silen set Taren down on the floor beside her and he retreated behind her legs stright away, she sighed honestly that boy somtimes, however he did squeak a shy 'hi' at the other girl from his postion. At least there was that, as she saw Melody approch she gave a small wave as intial greeting guessing this must be the girl's gaudian.
Taren though the girl looked harmless enough, even gentle but he wasn't about to take any chances he'd only met one other female d-corp child and she had been frightening still the sight of the innocent large dove eyes and the girls physical size when compared to his own was reassuring in itself and he edged out from behind his guardian's legs towarsher, still feeling the water lapping at her feet.
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:17 am
Melody waved back, feeling much better. Perhaps it was another D-Corp and, another person they had somehow cajoled into taking care of those poor children. "Hello. "She smiled, gesturing towards Taren, "Might I guess that he came from D-Corp too?"
Alora peered at Taren curiously. He seemed shy, shyer than her even. She had gotten past it but well, meeting strangers was still a little frightening to her. "Alora." She tried to start the introductions, pointing to herself.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:41 am
Silen nodded to the other women's question. "yep, He's a D-corp child as well, as I'm guessing your little one there is?" she said smiling and looking down at the girl, althrough she was still fuming at D-corp, checky batards the lot of them and more barmy than a barel full of ferets, still she wasn't about to take that out on any of the other parents who had been 'persuaded' to take in the children and of course not on the children themselves. "I'm Silen." she introduced herself then looked down at Taren.
The child was staring openly at the other white feathrd creature but he glanced up and caught his mothers look, shrinking back from it slightly then catching on. "I'm Taren." he said pointing at himself with one large claw.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:58 am
Yup, the boy was from D-Corp as well. Though Melody couldn't exactly figure out what animal he was. "I'm Melody." She smiled at Silen. She must have been pulled into this as well...not that Melody regretted taking in Alora, but the prospect of having a dragon in her house, was still, frightening.
Taren. Alora nodded in return. It was a nice name.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:55 am
Silen loked around at the beach's other inhabitants, seems that the women also had a few more to deal with in the child deparment althrough all of them looked quite adorable, she smiled, she did like children and animals after all but she just hadn't planned on taking in another funny how cercumstances change, she sighed and looked back nodding. "nice name.Se's adorable to." silen commented looking down at the avian child.
"oh do you idnd if we walk up the beach to our things, I still have to get this one dry." she said pointing at the mole boy.they were both still driping with freezing cold sae water after all.
Without really waiting she started walking up the beach, seeing Taren was starting to shiver she didn't want him to catch cold in this weather, it was hr own fault though, she was part ice demon afterall so she often forgot how cold it was for others. When she reached er bag and their things she grabbed a large towel and enfolded the child with it looking back to see if the girl and her guardian had followed.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:22 pm
"Thank you." Melody replied, smiling as her tense muscles relaxed. Her eyes darted to Taren, whose fur was dripping with the ice cold water and nodded.
As she followed, she motioned for Alora and Gywn to follow; it seemed like the brown-haired girl had filled her bucket to the brim. As Gywn skipped up, she linked hands with Alora, as the two set to exploring the sea shells she had picked. Mereneth looked up from the messy pile of sand in front of him and waved to the new people on the beach, cocking his head to stare at Taren.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:38 pm
Silen just smiled rubbing down the mole boy's wet fur, lovingly even drying his nose and making him giggle adorably as he tried to brosh his guardian away from the sensative spot. He stayed close to her though watching the other children couriously, small eyes enlarged by bottle glasses flickering from one to another.
Maners kicking in he waved slightly at the others as he was dried then looked in the bag they had with them for his bag of treats, choclate bottons. He took a handful which was rather large considering his hands and then gingerly held out the bag to the other children while his guardian rumeged around for clothing.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:18 am
Smiling serenely as lovable gestures were exchanged between both the guardian and Taren, Alora leaned slightly on Gywn, her wings fluttering as they closed around both of them, to keep them warm.
As he held out the chocolates, the children, remembering her manners, chroused a "Thank you." before taking only a few of the buttons. Mereneth's eyes flickered towards his mother before taking the treats, who gave him a stern look, and gave her a sheepish look and settled for a few.
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:46 am
Taren nodded surprised an approving, and took up the bag again to pour the remaining buttons into it,hording the circular treats for later. although he seemed to have little coordination because more than half the remaining buttons got lost to the sand, most likely due to the child poor eyesight that was improved but not fixed by the thick lens that covered his eyes. He squeaked as he suddenly found that his guardian was yanking his favroured shirt over his head.
Deep purple and decorated with paler violet beetles that trundles round in stitched intricate details around the hem and sleeves. Taren liked bugs, having sometimes just watched them, sometimes eaten them much to his guardian's disgust. Then his swimming trunks where exchanged to pants and shorts, although the shirt was so long it hid everything well, Silen quickly changed behind a concealing rock then reappeared.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:57 am
Alora began nibbling at a few as she watched the mole boy and was rather startled as he dropped some. Acting on instinct, she immediately dropped down to pick them up, but realised that it would be dirty. Still...the beach couldn't be dirty, could it? Scooping a few of the rather obvious ones, she walked over to the blanket and put them into a tissue paper, placing it carefully under the bag so it wouldn't get lost. She'd throw it away later.
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