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 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:33 pm
{New RP}
Awen sat in the wet sand on the shore. Closing her eyes she listened to the waves slowly rolling in and back out to the sea. Only a seemingly short while ago Awen had almost drowned herself as her parents had drowned themselves so many years ago.
However all fear of the ocean had passed her. The manta ray serum had certainly done it's job at making Awen at peace with that former phobia. Now, she opened her eyes and watched the water. A strange sense overwhelmed her, the feeling that was but a tingle in the back of her mind at the last stage. The manta ray was insistant. That is where she belonged.
"I know... I know..." She mumbled softly. "But if I go, it will kill me this time."
Still Awen did not wish to leave just yet. She smiled as the water lapped her legs and sighed as it departed.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:44 pm
I walked down to the beach, sketchbook in hand. it was time to find a rockpool and sketch some sealife. I figured I might as well, considering I was living on an island now. Smiling at the prospect of finding some interesting fishes, I started down the sand and was startled to see someone already there!
"Ooh, another islander!" I giggled. I was in a good mood today. I skipped down the beach toward the apparently blue person.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:53 pm
Though it seemed sort of faint Awen could hear a voice somewhere behind her. She glanced over her shoulder to see who it was. The blond hair and bouncing form caught Awen off guard. She started and scuffled away a couple feet. Who was this? Someone new?
Awen frowned and looked at the water. She didn't want that 'oh-em-gee you're a freak!' look she'd gotten from so many people, and that was before her last change. She wanted nothing more than to just jump in the water to hide away from the girl. But if she did that she would die and there was no way she could run for the trees....
the manta kept her arms close to her, to try to hide the webbing. "Uh...hello there!" She smiled awkwardly.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:59 pm
The girl's shyness caught me a little off-guard. Pff, what is she scared of? I wondered. Running and throwing myslef onto the sand next to her, I turned to her and smiled as warmly as I could. "Hi, I'mIvy and I'm new here and your webbing stuff looks really cool and are you some kind of manta ray because I love those." I said in a rush.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:06 pm
Awen blinked and was taken aback. A new islander, and she didn't think Awen was a freak? People like Hargun and Amaya who called Awen pretty...well that was to be expected, they were used to everything. But a perfectly normal human being saying Awen looked cool? She couldn't help but blush and smile a little more sincerely.
"Y-yeah! Manta, exactly. You're good!" Awen laughed a little bit and stretched out her hand to shake. "Name's Awen Zyn."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:20 pm
I shook the extended hand, admiring the smoothness of her skin. "Wow, that's cool! I wanna be a marine biologist someday. That's how I knew you were manta ray" I added. Then with a jolt a part of my brief conversation with Fiona came back to me. "There are two people...you can't trust them. Their names are Awen and Lauren. Awen is...she's some kind of fish." So this is one of the girls who was supposedly helping the doctors, eh? I sized her up. She seemed too friendly to be a bad guy! besides, she was way cute and that Fiona girl was...wierd. "So, can you swim?" I asked.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:30 pm
Awen smiled and shook her hand. The smile turned somewhat sad when the girl mentioned her dream of becoming a marrine biologist. There wasn't much chance of that now that she was on the island... no schools and such. Maybe the labs would give her materials so she could get educated though...? Hm.
When the girl had a jolt, Awen's sad smile turned into a brief frown. but only for a moment until the girl continued speaking. Awen grinned a little bit and nodded. If there was one thing she could do... it was swim.
"Like I was born to it!" Awen beamed, somewhat proud of this unnatural ability. Though she was startled she used that wording. That was exactly as Moreau had promised her when she came to the island for 'therapy'.
She held up a leg to wrigle her foot in the air a bit. "Sadly, it's made walking sort of difficult."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:39 pm
I sighed sympathetically, looking at ther long, webbed feet. "I like to swim too...Hey! can you breathe underwater yet? We should go scuba diving!" Thinking about the comments Fiona had made, I added, "You wouldn't happento know a girl named Fiona, would you? Kinda paranoid, furry? She said she didn't like you, do you have any idea why?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:50 pm
The girl talked so fast! It was hard for Awen to keep up. "Well yes I ca-- oh no I can't out he--" Then she paused and blinked.
"Fee is now complaining about me to strangers? Oh joy..." She sighed and shook her head slowly. And she's furry? Awen hoped claws weren't involved... Mantas don't have too much in the way of natural defence of claws teeth or tentacles... if Fiona went psycho and attacked....oh boy. "She doesn't like me because I was harsh on her escape the island plans. I was just trying to sober her up to the risks that her wild plans were going to get people into. I am not entirely un-sympathetic. I tried to escape the island once, tried to swim my way out to get help. But I can't breathe in salt water and...well... live. So I almost drowned myself, and I want to prevent any hastey attempts like that again. Fiona has hated me ever since, even though I said I would help her. It only got worse when she through a 'party'" And yes, Awen did the air quotes. "And tried to rally people to her cause. She... went off in a real psycho-activist paranoid kind of way... which would only serve to put people off of the idea when they were just trying to have fun at the party, you know? My friend Lauren, a tall girl with lots of yellow fur and some neat horns, was drunk at the time and was laughing at Fee. The hot head then started threatening Lauren, and I stepped in between to avoid anything physical from happening. Then Fee started chewing me out, you know? Saying I'm useless a sympathiser and everything..."
Awen shook her head slowly. "Fee is just stirring up uneeded hostility. I may be complacent but god damnit... I've been here since... god... since last november. I've tried to escape. I don't think it's possible, but I'm willing to help. Sorry if I don't want to march up to the labs with a bomb, or have other people try to jump the cliffs to escape, you know? I'm trying to be reasonable, rational, about it but she thinks I'm a spy because I try to warn her when a plan will fail!"
The manta felt bad, and knew this was only the half truth. She did do what she said, and she wasn't entirely opposed to escape. But she had told Sabin of Fiona and her plans. She would continue to do so as well, until Fee figured out something that wasn't going to kill, or seriously injur, someone in the process. She just wanted everyone to be safe... On or off the island.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:01 pm
I nodded, only able to take in every other word. "So, she's basically a dangerous nutcase?" I aksed when she had finished, smiling a little.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:03 pm
Awen shook her head slowly. "No... I wouldn't put it that way." She mulled it over trying to find a nice way to say it. "She's just... agressively enthusiastic. A little misguided... but her heart is in the right place."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:11 pm
I nodded. "I get what you mean." I sighed, looking out at the water. "Hey...we should go swimming sometime!" I grinned, wanting badly to swim with a fish-person.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:15 pm
"Ah sure!" Awen grinned and nodded. "I like swimming with people, but often i'm just alone." She shook her head and looked out at the water. "Mostly because people swim out here by the beach, and I'm stuck in the lake and river, you know? No surfing or scuba diving..." All the things she had been looking forward to trying before her...incident.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:26 pm
"Oh, freshwater only, huh?" I chuckled a bit, but then I noticed a sad look on her face. "Hey...it doesn't matter to me where we swim. Lakes, oceans...what's the difference, you know?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:32 pm
"Well... I used to love the ocean when I was a kid...but then I stopped liking it when my parents drowned. I had hydrophobia for a long time... And with the whole changing into a fish thing I got over my fear, but I can't go swimming in it, surfing or see any of the cool tropical fish and coral and stuff from around here."
She shook her head and stood up, brushing the sand off of her. "Besides, you know, the manta wants a wider space to swim, spread it's wings -as it were."
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