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 Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:02 pm
The day was kinda warm, too warm for the little girl. Instead of being all over that playground having the time of her life, Shayla slung herself over a swing and just ... Hung there. Her stomach kept her supported as she swatted at the sand below. For some reason, he just didn't feel like playing. Maybe it was because she was melting.
She noticed several minutes after hanging there that she was dripping. She wasn't crying, so she had to be melting. Did the sun not like her? Craning her head, she looked up at the offending sun and sighed. "Stupid.."
Huffing, she reached up to touch one of her horns, noting it had a smooth slippery feeling. Yep, melting. A small frown appeared on her face as she stood. If she melted, would she disappear like the snow? Biting her lip, a worried glance was cast to her father. He could fix it, right? She didn't want to leave her daddy.
Feeling the tears coming on, the small girl sniffled as she turned away and ran for the closest shadow spot. Which just happened to be below the crazy slide. It was there that she sat down, tugged her knees to her chest and started to cry. Other kids looked her way, but none ventured close.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:06 pm
Irizu had been sitting beneath a young tree, plucking at the dead grass and looking for wormies or maybe mousies. She had yet to find any, but that hadn't discouraged her thus far.
As she held a particularly wormy-looking plant root up to the light, she spotted the crying girl. Her hands flew to her mouth in a gasp of horror.
The bright-eyed girl tugged at Fuzzy Man's sleeve, and he only gave her a cursory glance, a smile, and a nod. She took this as a go-ahead and toddled carefully over to the slide, not liking the way the sand felt in her sandals.
"Drippy girl okay?" she asked as she ducked beneath the twisted plastic.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:16 pm
Was someone talking to her? Well... Drippy girl. She had to be the only one melting here. Ice blue eyes looked up at the new girl, her hands reaching up to her hair. "Noooooo! Not ok!" She whimpered, tears running down her face. "I'm melting! I dun wanna go bye bye... " Dropping her hands a bit, she wiped at the tears with her forearms.
Instead of her usual winter jacket, she was wearing just a regular t-shirt. Even the spring weather wasn't to cold for her, nothing apparently was. But too warm, now that was another thing. The small girl just sniffled as she glanced around. "Daddy says the sun makes the snow go away... And 'cause I like snow maybe da sun wants me to go away too..... But I dun wanna 'cause I love my Daddy."
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:19 pm
Irizu squinted up at the sun, eyes watering almost immediately. She still wasn't quite used to the ball of flame in the sky. She could never see it from home. She turned back to the melting girl after a while.
"D'sun can't help it. Iss just gonna be hot foreveh. Das wha' Rizu daddy say. It like drippy girl fine."
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:30 pm
"Den why is it making me all melty?" She asked as if the new girl had all the answers. Perhaps she did, or maybe she didn't. Either way Shayla was looking for answers and a way to not melt into nothing. She didn't have a magical hat to let her come back next winter like Frosty the Snowman - but she had a bracelet.
Curiously she looked down at the golden locket, only to find to her amazement that the ice there was undisturbed. That peeked her interest. "Why does this no melt... But my ice melt?" More or less, she had asked the question allowed to herself. She didn't expect the other to know anything about it.
"Hmmm.." No, this wouldn't have any answers. Again she looked at the girl with her, but this time forced a smile. "My name is Shayla... What is your name?" If she was going to disappear she might as well make one last friend!
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:33 pm
Irizu blinked in confusion. The drippy girl had gone from crying to friendly in a split second. People were so confusing...
"My name Rizu," she nodded sagely, "Rizu got a sister name Zee." She idly wondered if drippy girl had any siblings and peered about in search of them.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:39 pm
"Riiizu. Dats a pretty name!" She stated, pulling herself up to her feet and reaching round to dust off her bottom. "I make lots of friends lately. You be my friend to now?" She asked, cocking her head to the side. A small trickle of water dripped off the tipped side, she didn't even seem to notice.
"I gots a broder. But he ain't here. Daddy let Grandma take him today. He dun like taking him out with me 'cause I'm so .... What was da word.." She paused in thought, tapping a finger lightly against her lips. "Daddy said I was to much something. I dun remember." Truth was, Jason just couldn't handle an energetic kid with a baby at the same time. Poor guy...
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:42 pm
"Das nah nice," Irizu said, waggling her head and disregarding anything said to her before 'let Grandma take him', "I dun' has a gramma buh Daddy let Rizu n' Zee play all duh time. Skayla n' Gramma live togedder?"
It only made sense for families to live together, after all.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:08 pm
Shayla shook her head at the question. "Noo... Gamma lives next door. Like dis..." Dropping down to her knees, she started to doodle in the sand. First she drew a large square, then a smaller one beside it. "Dis is Gamma's house." She stated, pointing to the big square. "Gamma, Waya, Belinda, Taima, um.... And lots more live in dare. I can't think of all da names." She explained. There was 8 kids in that house, who could remember all them?
"Dis one." She pointed to the small square. "Is Daddy, me, Colby and Corpse and Rudy-ard." That name always stuck on her tongue. "Cause Daddy wanted out of the big house so Gamma made him a new house and that's where I live." Smiling, she looked at Irizu and giggled. "We have big family dinner over at Gammas sometimes, but not lately..."
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:13 pm
Irizu blinked and drew an absolutely enormous shape in the dirt, not quite a square but entirely geometrical.
"Rizu live here wif Ee-zayuh n' Oliver n' Daddy n' Zee n' Muffin n' Puppy," the girl nodded after a moment, "We dun' haff nobody else cos' they all go boom. We dun' eat dinners either, only me and Daddy. Ee-zayuh n' Oliver eat Daddy instead." The wording of her previous sentence did not strike Irizu at all as strange.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:24 pm
"They EAT your Daddy?!" Yeah, the question shocked the other little girl. "But why would dey eat your Daddy? I wouldn't want my daddy eaten, but someone say he might taste like chicken 'cause he's got wings... But.." She paused. "I'd miss my Daddy.. my Daddy will miss me if I go melting. OH NO!" And then again, she remember the reason she had gotten so upset.
"I'M MELTING!" Again the tears started to well in her eyes. She didn't want to melt!
But as if on cue, it was Daddy to the rescue. A tall handsome man started over, his long blue hair tied back in a braid dangling between his two stellar jay wings. Yeah, he was dressed as if he were going to kidnap the kids, but frequenting the playground no one seemed to bat an eye at him as he headed towards the two girls. It was easy to find his daughter hearing the shout.
"Shayla.." He called out softly, holding out a small zip lock bag full of.. Ice cubes? "Eat this baby, it's getting warm out here and your temperature is rising. You're not melting... Don't worry." Gently he pat the girls head before dropping the bag into her lap. "Eat all the ice before it turns to water."
Shayla looked from the bag to her dad and to her new friend then back again. "I'm not melting?" She asked, reaching into the bag for a piece of ice, raising it to her lips. ""But da ice will melt to water.. What will I melt to."
Jason chuckled, "Don't worry baby... You won't disappear. Now eat the ice. I have more if you need it." Again he pat the top of her head before he rose to go. He didn't want to interrupt her play time after all. He just smiled at Irisu, but paused. "Hmm.. If you two get thristy come find me ok? I got juice boxes."
Grinning, Shayla shoved another chunk of ice into her mouth before stating "Ok Daddy! Bye bye!" Crunch, ice was so yummy.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:29 pm
Irizu watched the man as he approached, absorbing his every movement, the timbre of his voice. The skulls on her necklace began to glow faintly, but ceased as the man walked off. She turned her attentions back to her new friend.
"They drink the red stuffs," Irizu nodded, "Daddy got lotsa red stuff. Watchoo eatin'?"
As per usual, her mind was skipping further and further away from the main point of the conversation as each second ticked by.
"Your Daddy's pretty. I like him. He's nice."
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:55 pm
"Red stuffs..." She echoed, but frowned. What kinda red stuff could it be? Oh well, not like it mattered to her. But when asked, she offered the baggie of ice over to her new friend. "I gots ice. Daddy gives me ice sometimes. I like it, it's so coooooooold. Have one!" It was nothing special but a ice chunk from a ice tray.
"And yeah, my daddy is really nice. I love my Daddy." She stated happily, shoving another ice chunk into her mouth. She seemed to once more forget that she was melting, munching away on the ice. "Do you wanna play after I eat my ice?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:01 pm
Irizu took an ice cube and popped it into her mouth, rolling it around on her tongue.
"Sure," she said after a moment, "but I gotta go get my giraffe. I'll be right back." She stood then and wobbled over to her father, still sitting beneath the tree and watching his daughter curiously.
"Daddy, I'm gonna go play with Skayla."
"Skayla?"
"Skkkkshhhh....Shayla."
"Is that your new friend?"
"Mmhm."
"I'm gonna come with you, okay? I don't want you getting lost." After all this time, the Viishnu was still a bit hesitant to let the child go much of anywhere on Gaia.
Irizu nodded, stole her spherical stuffed giraffe, and toddled away, joining Shayla back beneath the slide. She didn't notice Fuzzy Man following.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:43 pm
From her spot under the slide, she watched Irizu walk off and just waved in the fathers direction. Surely he'd see right? If not, oh well. Another piece of ice was shoved into her mouth and crunched on. Ice was flavorless, but still so good. All in all, eating the ice was cooling Shayla's body temperature and her hair stopped dripping.
From his spot on the other side of the playground, Jason watched the small girl stroll over to her parent. Leaning a bit, he tried to figure out if that was a woman or a man. Well, either way he should go say something. Their children were interacting. Biting his lip, he rose to his feet and grabbed his book. Time to me a man Jason... he muttered to himself as he began the walk around the play area.
By the time he made it around, Irizu was already walking back to Shayla. Good. Meant the parents could talk alone. Slowing his pace, he casually approached the fuzzy one. "Um... Hi. My name is Jason, our daughters seem to be playing over there. I thought I'd come introduce myself." Though, he offered no hand shake.
Shayla watched as Irizu started back and giggled. "Looookie!" She pointed behind the other. "Our Daddies are talking now. 'Cause we're friends they can be friends to!" She stated happily, flashing a large smile at Irizu. "So, Rizu. What do you want to play? Maybe we can go make sand castles? No... The box looks too full. Hmm..." She cast a glance around the park, trying to think of what they could do.
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