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 Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:53 am
"Oh, that will be perfect." It was Ana's turn to feel embarassed again. She was being so ungrateful! "I'm sorry," she said once more, "I should have come in later. It's just, I haven't been allowed to do something like this before, and I guess I got a little carried away..." Ana gave a nervous laugh, taking one of her hands off the teacup to brush it over her flower in her distraction.
"Thank you so much for the tea." She sat down in one of the chairs, her skirts nearly hiding it from view once more. "Ah... Of course I know you are Celia," Ana said after a short pause, startled by her boldness, "but may I ask how you know my name? If, if it isn't prying too much, of course," she added quickly, "you don't have to answer. I'm sorry." She quickly took a long sip of her tea, feeling lost and flustered once more.
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:05 am
"Oh, well I know the names of a lot of people in the castle who think I don't,"She said, smiling a little as she took a sip of her tea. "I...Well, I've always thought...If your going to be living near someone, you should know their name. Of course...Here, there are a lot of names to know..."She said, trailing off slightly as she did so. Now she was very nearly awake, and was sort of wonder if that was a strange view to have. She really didn't want Ana, or anyone else to think she was weird.
Then the knight came back to her earlier commnet, "Also...You don't have to be sorry. Normally, I would have been up by now...I just haven't gotten a ton of sleep lately. I sort of...keep falling asleep mid-page in the library,"She said, a little tenatively, but still smiling.
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:23 am
"Still," Ana sighed (partially out of relief), "I was supposed to have made sure before I came in. It's just polite."
She smiled back at Celia, not out of any thought to soothe her, but because the other girl was beginning to sound as nervous as she herself was. It was nice to have things in common with someone else, even if they were as trivial as this. She swallowed another mouthful of tea. This was quite nice, actually.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:28 am
"Let's be off, then! Oh, and I'm the Blue Officer, Kushina," she introduced herself more "completely" rather offhandedly, opening the door and casting a suspicious glance to left and right before nodding in satisfaction and waving for Micoi to follow her.
"We'll take some shortcuts that'll get us down to the training grounds quickly, so we don't get stopped by anyone who might stop us," Kushina smirked and winked at Micoi, holding out a piece of bread stuffed with fruit.
"Breakfast?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:19 pm
Celia smiled a little to herself for a moment, took a sip of her tea, and then said, "You know...I'm actually...Glad you did. If you hadn't, I wouldn't have gotten to talk to such a nice person."
The knight felt good, having made what she considered to be a friend. She was thinking the same thing as Ana; it really was nice to talk to someone who was a lot like her.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:31 pm
Ana smiled again from behind her teacup, obviously shyly this time. For some reason she had never imagined that one of the Dragon Knights could be so, well, so much like her.
"So, um," she cast about for some topic, "you sure have a lot of books. What sort of thing do you like to read?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:11 pm
"Everything,"Replied Celia happily,"Anything I can get my hands on. Fantasy, history, science, psychology...I can't get eneough of it." She smiled, liking the topic really, and very glad it was something she could talk about.
"Do you like to read?"She asked, hoping maybe she had a book or two that the other dragon would be interested in.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:34 pm
Ana had turned pink again. "Not really... I don't read very much... I guess I just don't have much time. I really, I really like watching people read, though." She quickly looked away, taking a long slow drink from her cup. That was weird. What had she been thinking? "I...I don't mean that in a creepy way. I mean, I like looking at people." Now she was getting very flustered. Everything she said was coming out wrong. "No, I mean--!"
Ana put down her teacup on the small table, folding and unfolding her hands in her lap. "I mean, I like to draw people. And other things."
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:10 pm
"Oh! I know exactally what you mean!"Celia replied enthustically. She put her cup down for a moment, and then seemed to be thinking.
After a second, she said "When my parents found me, I sort of went through a mini-childhood phase. I couldn't remember anything, so it was like having a slightly taller child." She wasn't sure exactally that she was explaining it properly, but the knight was doing her best.
"When I was in the earlier part of it, I used to watch my dad read all the time. He always had this really focused look on his face, like he was miles away and actually seeing what he was reading about,"Celia smiled, remembering it rather happily.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:49 pm
"Yes, like that," Ana replied happily. It was easier to talk to Celia than to most people. In fact, this conversation might have been the longest one she had had with someone her age since coming to the Dragon Castle. She decided she really liked the Water Dragon Knight. Had Neith suspected they would hit it off when she assigned her Celia's room to clean?
"I used to watch my father read, too. When I was younger he would read to my siblings and I before bed. It was always really nice," she said with a small smile, tentatively opening herself up a little for the other.
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:21 pm
Celia picked her tea back up, and took a sip. "What's it like to have siblings?"she asked, still wondering even though she had gotten one opinion form Baran earlier...Maybe it was different for everyone.
She couldn't help but immagine having lots of siblings. The knight had always wanted to have people her own age to play with when she was 'younger', but she never really had that sort of a chance thanks to her unusual circumstances.
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:47 pm
"They weren't actually my siblings," Ana said with a nervous laugh. "They were my cousins. My mother's sister died when we were kids, so they came to live with us for a while. Only about a year and a half," she sounded surprised at this revelation, "while my uncle got back on his feet. I was five at the time and I don't remember much about when they moved in, but I didn't want them to leave. It felt like they had been there forever to me, and it was nice to have some other kids around to play with. Although," she giggled again, "they were pretty loud. I used to get bossed around a lot because I was the youngest. They were always talking over me. They got a lot of attention because my parents felt bad for them, especially at first. But I really liked when we were all together and doing something as a group, like when we listened to my father read."
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:52 pm
"Oh...Well, I'm sorry to hear about your Aunt,"Celia said a little shyly, now feeling bad that she had asked, considering it was part of the loss of a family memeber. She hoped she hadn't made Ana upset or anything...
Of course, she still couldn't help but love the thought of a bunch of relatives playing together, even if she were to be the youngest, or the middle, or...well, anywhere in there. She thought it seemed like a lovely idea.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:55 am
"It's fine," Ana smiled shyly in return, finishing the tea. "I don't mind. Um," she placed her cup down on the edge of the table. "I'm sorry to be rude, especially after you've been so nice, but do you mind if I start tidying up? It's just that I need to finish your room before breakfast... I... I don't mind talking to you, though, if you don't need to be anywhere for a while..."
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:18 am
"Oh, Um...sure, I guess,"Said the Knight, shrugging a little bit. She still didn't really see what there was to clean. By her logic, if you couldn't see the floor, there was no real reason to clean it, as long as the things covering it were where they were supposed to be. It didn't quite make sense to anyone but her, but...Well, she did know where every book in the room was, and what it was...
She smiled as she took Ana's empty tea cup over to the sink; She would wash them later. "Do you want any help...?"the knight asked. She figured that since it was her mess after all, she might as well ask to help...Of course, she didn't want to end up just being more of a problem.
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