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 Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:08 am
So they'll make the perfect pair, then. What's up with him and girls?
Liam rolled his eyes. Rabid's cult was...very creepy. They always tried to feed her goats' blood and gave her pentagrams and upside-down crosses as gifts. He liked beating them off with stick, though.
Tiny? Look at me! He's got a good 7 inches on me. I prefer my spinal column UNcrushed, thank you very much. Growth spurt? What's a growth spurt?
He crossed his arms a bit indignantly. He hadn't ever had a growth spurt. Whether that was due to the Vavvian inbreeding or the fact that William was a shrimp, he could never be sure.
"They're talking about you," Rabid whispered to Julian, "I can tell." In truth, she could. The only thing that could make Liam act like that was to remind him or his height when speaking of someone else. He'd long since stopped angsting about Rabid's insane growth spurts, so...
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:58 am
I dunno - he could just never talk to them without getting nervous. I think it's 'cause he had a crush on some girl in elementary school, and when he tried to talk to her, she hit him and broke his nose. She had anger management problems.
Giving Liam an analytical look as she tried to figure out if she was as short as him, she shrugged.
A spurt is....huh. Can't really explain it - didn't exactly have one myself. It's when you grow really tall really quickly, I suppose. Don't feel bad, he was genetically designed to be freakin' basketball player-sized.
Julian eyed Crow and Liam speculatively, and shrugged in an identical manner as his sister.
"Hey, as long as they're not planning to kill me, it's fine by me."
The brief lull in the conversation was suddenly interrupted by a loud crashing of glass and an earsplitting, shrieking roar. Crow gave a gasp and clapped a hand to her forehead in sudden remembrance, wincing as a large Something started crashing around outside the ballroom. Excusing herself from Liam with a polite smile, Crow grabbed Julian by the arm and dragged him away from Rabid.
"If you'll excuse us for a minute, my dear brother and I have to step out for a bit. I sorta brought one of the test subjects home from work, and by the sound of it, it just escaped. Be right back!"
Dragging Julian by the arm with a panicked look on her face, Crow sprinted from the ballroom. Julian gave a resigned smile and waved at Rabid.
"Pray we don't get eaten!" he said as he was dragged out of the room.
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:09 am
Sarcasm, luv. Sarcasm.
Liam gave a short wave and watched the siblings leave.
"Even if they do get eaten," he turned to Rabid, "They've always got me."
"Eeeew...undead Crow bits..." Rabid smiled slightly and watched them leave.
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:10 pm
Gullien shook her head, slightly shocked. Ten years in five months... "What exactly is a Mishap life-span, do you know?" She asked Silencer. She wasn't raising a mayfly here, was she? That was a depressing thought... "It's just... he seems to have grown so quickly in such a short span of time."
Thylassa chewed on her eye thoughtfully as the other children she had been watching left. The only ones left around her now were adults. Boring. Even Sabriel was better than just sitting here.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:58 am
"Ah? How come?" Silencer asked at Xiao Ling's statement and looking over at the toddler. "If he is, then I certainly can't tell. He looks fine to me now, but meh. You're his guardian, so... 24 hour surveillance compared to just a few minutes from me," she said, laughing a little.
Just then she caught Gullien's question and frowned, then shook her head.
"Good question. You know, I've never thought of that," she said, looking down at Thylassa. "Now that you've mentioned it, I'm beginning to wonder myself." Her expression was one of worry as she glanced around the room at the other guardian, some of which she knew. Would they know?
Ah, but surely Jabir or Maggie knew? They were, after all, the ones who set up and ran the adoption agency. "Perhaps we can check it out whith Jabir or Maggie?" Silencer asked thoughtfully, stroking the snowglobe in her arms while the little white fox that had been curled on her head slithered down the girl and up onto Thylassa's stroller to sniff at the little one curiously.
Rex swept into the room just then, sending the fox skittering behind Thylassa. The boy stopped in front of his mother and handed her a large black void of a pearl, before turning and nodded to Gullien and Thylassa with a friendly smile on his face.
"Hello, uh..." he began.
"Gullien."
"Miss Gullien. And ei..."
"Thylassa"
"Thylassa." Grin.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:24 pm
Ike quite literally skipped back into the ballroom, followed closely by Clemmie and still holding tight to Shammi.
"MUMMYYYYY!"
"What?"
"MUMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
"WHAT?!"
"We back."
"Okay, hun."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:39 pm
Only a few moments after fleeing the ballroom, Julian and Crow returned, tight lipped and sour-looking. Both seemed to be covered in a mix of saliva, snot, and teal-tinged tears, dripping and leaving steaming splatters on the floor. A reptilian creature, still snivelling and snuffling, dripped the steaming teal tears as it whined to Crow in a language doubtless only she could understand.
"Grs'lrrrb ykrt?" the thing asked, it's filmy green eyes wavering on their spindly stalks.
"Ah, shaddup." Crow replied sourly as she and Julian marched back over to Liam and Rabid.
Julian, taking care to wipe off a bit of the creature's spit from his face before speaking, gave Rabid and Liam a weary, though somewhat amused, look.
"Don't say a word."
Lenore burst back into the hall, pausing only to get one last look at King before taking off like a shot at Crow.
"MUUUUUUUUUM! Dei got a pirate ship and we get to be pirates now and it's huge and GROSS YOU'RE ALL SLIMY!"
Crow grit her teeth and gave the creature a dirty look. It withdrew towards the buffet table discreetly, throwing delicacies into its large mouth with one dainty tentacle.
"Yeah. Didn't realize that. Thanks, Len."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:45 pm
Liam snerked rather loudly and tossed Crow and Julian a vial, respectively.
"That's...I...ugh," he gave a short laugh and stared, "Kindly injest these in Mei-Vaar?" He pointed to the portal.
His vials often only half-solved the problem. For example, these only caused nastiness to slough off...not to disappear.
Rabid just stood there, giving Crow and Julian a look of total disgust, although her eyes betrayed her amusement.
Ike was quick to notice the rearriving guests.
"What're they doing back here?"
"Shhhh, Malachi. Be polite."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:54 pm
Crow's eyes narrowed at Malachi's remark, but she refrained from snapping back at him. Dragging Julian off and through the portal, dripping a great deal more bodily fluids than he was, the pair disappeared to clean themselves up.
Her sunny mood suddenly killed by Malachi's attitude, Lenore rattled her razor feathers at him coldly.
"Hmph."
Pushing past him insolently, she made her way over to the table and grabbed a couple cookies the creature had overlooked, nibbling at them silently.
Almost immediately, Crow and Julian fell back out of the portal, clean, but still looking rather cross.
"Well, maybe if you hadn't brought the damn thing back here in the first place, it wouldn't have laid eggs in the bathroom!"
"How the hell was I supposed to know it could reproduce asexually?! "Take the thing home," they said. "It's harmless," they said. How th' bloody hell was I supposed to know it was gonna dig up BODIES?!"
Brushing herself off and striding back over to Rabid and Liam, Crow pulled out a seat for herself and gave an irritable huff.
"Goddamn splicing experiment."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:00 pm
Ike, surprised by Lenore's reaction, hobbled over to her.
"What wrong?"
"Bodies?" Liam's eyes grew wide, "It dug up bodies?"
Rabid shook her head and gave an angry huff.
"Someone, please beat my son. Seriously."
"'Ow many?"
"Liam...no. Just...no."
"D'awwwww..."
"Yah see, Crow? That's what you get for finding a better job," she smiled and shrugged playfully.
"...corpses."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:23 pm
Len's eyes narrowed at Malachi's approach.
"You know 'xactly what. Julian an' Mum are evil 'cause it's what they are - they can't help it. Stop being such a...a....JERKWAD!"
Blowing air out her nose in a loud huff of disapproval, Len turned on her heel and faced the table again, gnawing at a cookie. She then turned 'round again, looking sour.
"I'm evil, too, ya know. That mean you hate me too?" she asked, not bothering to conceal the cold edge on her voice.
She had, after all, done a bit of research on Unseelies. By the sound of it, she was more evil than a cheerleader.
Crow gave a groan, burying her head in her hands.
"Half of the goddamn cemetary where me an' Len go for walks. And it didn't just dig them up, it..." she trailed off, shaking her head and moaning. Julian took up the challenge of explaining, looking painfully amused.
"It sorta...hung them up on the trees."
"Merry freakin' Christmas."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:29 pm
"No!" Ike's ears folded back and his eyes went wide, "Ike evil too! IKE A VAMPY! 's just...Juleen roon everything." He huffed and slid to the ground, sniveling and sobbing pitifully. Things could never go right, could they?
"Oooooh..." Liam's face took on a wholly frightening amused expression, "'At's my kind o' mutant, ri' there..." He gave a short, manic laugh. Just the thought of all those corpses dangling from trees sent a gleeful shudder down his spine. It was quite exciting.
"Errr...Liam, honey. Did someone forget to take his meds this morning?" Rabid said jokingly and patted her friend on the back, arching an eyebrow, "I have a feeling they lied to you Crow. Just a little bit." She looked up to Julian and was a bit startled by his reaction. How long, exactly, had he and Liam talked...?
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:40 pm
"He don't ruin nothin'. He's a good guy, and you're just JEALOUS! So what iffen he likes Miss Rabid? You don't see me gettin' all jealous and actin' like a baby. I thought you were more....ah, whatever. In one pointy ear and out the other, innit? HMPH."
Tossing her cookie down on the floor bitterly and crossing her arms, she gave him a rather hurt look before looking away.
The creature, Yrglshnk'hh, backed away slowly. It hated confrontations.
"Eh, grdl yrrlgh rbrft," it offered lamely in excuse, hovering off politely, looking a tad askance at the two children with its five eyes.
"Yeah, no kidding. Gettin' them down from there should be a hoot," Crow said sourly, buffing her claws on her jacket lapel absently.
Julian, noticing Rabid's expression, cocked his head to one side rather innocently.
"What?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:49 pm
"Nuh-uh," Ike said, "'s not it..." Well, sure. It was part of the problem...but he wasn't going to admit it.
"Mummy almost died cuzza him," he said, his pupils fluctuating between their average size and slitted, making sight quite difficult, "He call us...uh...Ike dun't remember what called us, but i' was bad..." It sounded quite idiotic, now that he said it aloud.
"Ike a bad person," he said and hugged his knees to his chest before burying his head in them.
"Ye mean ye didn'...ye didn' get 'em down?" Liam's expression suddenly became something like confusion horror, "Well, iffin ye need any help...I could make 'em all dance right back to their pretty li'lk graves..."
Rabid was suddenly very deeply concerned.
"You look happy about the dead bodies in the local flora," she sighed and knotted her brow, "Very happy."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:05 pm
Lenore, rather ashamed of what she'd done, plowed on nonetheless without mercy.
"Oh, quit it. You're not bad. You're just actin' like a bit of a brat. You're one of my bes' friends, but iffen you're gonna insult my family....ooof. You can try to reason it out any way you want, but when Julian was mean to you guys, you know it wasn't his fault. There was somethin' even more evil than him inside him - like a virus or summat. It made him bad. But it ain't there now, so you don't got any excuse tah be mean to him!"
Not realizing how much pent up anger she'd had over Ike's treatment of Julian, she knuckled at an eye absently, mulling.
Crow flushed slightly.
"They're....sorta high up there." she offered lamely, wincing at the thought of corpses shambling back to their graves and giving her dirty looks with half-decomposed eyeballs.
"Uh, that's okay. I'll just...yeah. I'll get 'em down later."
Julian blinked in surprise. Rabid didn't find it funny? Mentally cataloging all the things he found humorous, Julian was more perplexed than ever,
Hmm. Pain of others, Chris Rock, death by electrocution, kittens chasing the light from those laser beam things, that home-video show on TV, professional football, dead bodies in ununsual places, horror movies... how could she not find that funny?
"Well, it's....funny," he said, oblivious to the fact that his well-hidden and controlled psychosis might influence his sense of humor in unforseen ways.
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