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This is like Alyssa and Celeste back in the hospital..we start out slow then suddenly our posts become huge!xD)

Kaida couldn't help but chuckle at the girl's face when her tail floated ontop of the heated water's surface. She was used to that type of reaction, but Joy didn't seem amazed by the beauty..no..it was something else. The dragoness didn't care to dwell on the subject very long, but the child's face was something of intrest to her.

She shook her head slightly to remove herself from the confines of her mind only to see joy doing the same thing. "I wonder what she's thinking..."Her elongated canines reached over her burgundy lip to naw gently against her lower one; it was an old habit that kaida had never truely gotten rid of.

Her mother alwasy believed that doing such a thing as biting your lip was improper and a disgrace to one's family. The dragoness had tried so hard to remove the habit from her daily life, but it began to pain the poor child. Eventually she was able to refrain from biting her lip anywhere in her mother's, or family for that matter, presence.

"Goddess no.. for a dragoness like yourself to be anywhere near the water purposefully is a miracle in itself."

Joy caught Kaida off-gaurd; she did not expect such a sudden comment. Her brow furrowed in slight anger, but softened as Joy noticed her mistake. The female wiffed her hand once more and smiled tenderly. "Yes..it is rare that you see someone like me in water. However, the springs are heated so, it is not all bad." Her hand ran through the child's hair; there were a few threads that were annoying her immensely. Kaida had obsessive complusive disorder, and that was something that could make ehr go insane.

Kaida cocked her head to the right as she noticed joy's giggle. Apparently she was breaking the rules or something along those lines.

"My mother Celestial is a student here, she owns a house in the deserts south of Ria and so I like to come to school with her. She tends to like to help out in the hospital and since I have no healing skills and am too young to help out a doctor, I run wild around the campus"

This girl ceased to surprise the dragoness; she hda no idea that Celeste had born a child. "Miss Celeste you say? I have not met her..but I do recall her helping one of my friends in the hospital; Alyssa Darkwood." Her delicate index finger tapped against her chin as she went through her memories to make sure she was indeed correct.

After a moment of pondering Kaida nodded and poked the young girl's cheek. "Yes..Celeste...I remember her quite well." She smiled, turning her bloodied gaze to Joy once more to respond to the rest of her answer. "Ahh..then I suppose you have healing abilities like your mother?" Kaida had no idea what to expect; Joy was filled with little surprises.

Slaphe smiled at her as she continued to talk. He was somewhat relieved that she didn't want him to tell about any of his stories...he wasn't really in the story-telling mood either. "Nothing special about being a half cat? I've never met one before...so it's special to me. Yeah...I guess you're right...we are kind of alike. I mean...why grope about the past? You can't change it...so why try?" Slaphe swam over to the side of the hot spring and got out. He grabbed his guitar by the skinny end and stood up. He turned back around and looked Nika in the eyes. "This...is my art." He slammed his guitar against the ground and suddenly the end he wasn't holding shattered into millions of small shards. He moved his hand in the direction of the shards and suddenly they started forming themselves together into a shortsword, while the end of the guitar that was still in his hands started to change into another short sword. He grabbed onto the short sword that was in the air with one swift motion and dropped his arms down to his side. "My art is weapon transformation...I am only a novice at it though...and I can only do it to this weapon...it's sort of like a pact." He hits the two shortswords together and they form back into the guitar again. "I can do a couple of others too...but they're sort of dangerous for me to use at this time..." He gently places the guitar back on the ground and gets back into the water again. "Oh...and about what you said...curiousity killed the cat...and curiousity brought it back." He smiled at Nika. "As long as you remember that...you should have nothing to worry about."

Slowly standing up, Keilantra grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her body.Giving a cringe as she felt hot water fling from her purple hair and onto the cut on her cheek she gave a sigh.Slowly walking to the changing room she snapped her fingers.She didn't want to wear her torn dirty dress and her powers seemed to have recleanched themselves slightly.She now had on a delicate cream colored shirt, with sleeves that went past her wrist, at the wrist was a pink ribbon type thing, where the elbow was two green jewels held the sleeve tight to her skin, over part of the shirt a dark pink bustier with yellow ribbon to tie it tight was placed, the bustier formed into the back of a dress were a large purple ribbon accented the back, a light pink frill dress flowed in the front underneath the bustier-dress, the whole dress fit tight to her skin then flowed down to the brown stockings and red shoes.Her hair was placed in large pink ribbons on both sides and her bangs shapped nicely over her face.Taking a few steps she exited the changing-room and walked towards the door.Placing her hand on the frame she swung the door open and made her way to a different area.

"Alyssa? Ah... oh ya!! Mammy told me about her a little bit! You're friends with her! Hehe, well I hope everything is going okay with her now.. Mom was really glad to help.

Of course, then the woman had to ask about Joy's abilities. Joy was actually really satisfied with what she had been bestowed with, but it was a sore point with her that she could not help with her mom at the hospital. When she was older she could be a nurse and help the doctors.. or even her mom... but at the moment she was too young.. and too small.

Joy sighed sadly and moved her body into Kaida's slightly, wanting to get warmer. "Nah," Joy responded sadly, "I don't have any.. mother says I might get them when I'm older.. or that I have to prove myself to the goddess before she rewards me with extra powers.. but I want to help mommy NOW!"

Joy folded her arms across her body and pouted, obviously frustrated. What help was it if you had an overdevellopped mind and a fastly growing body if you weren't already big enough to do everything yourself... maybe if she had the same magic as her mother she would be able to do more.. but her mother couldn't do what she could do.. and if she was the same as her mother, wouldn't everyone want her mother and not her.

Joy became sullen instead of frustrated. She knew her mother would stand by her no matter what.. but Joy still had very little friends.. she tried her hardest, but she didn't have the natural charm her mother had.. Joy had never known her father either.. but from her mother's cherished memories of him.. he wasn't anything like Joy was now.. It was hard, not knowing who you took after.. Joy looked like her father, had her mother's face, but her personality resembled nobodys.. sure it had a bit of everybody in it.. but Joy was still lonely.

She had talked to her mother once about it, and Celestial had smiled and patted her head, saying it was the doom of being human. You want to answer all your questions and would give anything to know it all.. but if you ever do, the weak fabric of the human body would fall apart and you would go insane. Celeste told her daughter that they were both still young, and had no right to already have all their questions answered, but when Joy was older they would go on a journey together and try to figure it out themselves.

Joy thought of something then, she turned her surprisingly mature looking expression on to Kaida. "Do you ever wish you could know everything for just a second, so that when you needed to know something you could simply remember it then forget it in a second?" Joy had always been iffy on the subject of knowledge. Her mother had always been open to talk, and Joy knew everything about her mother. All her tragedies, her loves, her dissapointments, but she also knew how much happiness her mother had gotten.

It was hard for a child to know so much, because all she wanted was to know more. She wanted to be sure her mother was happy with her live and didn't feel cheaped out from something. She wanted to make sure she was allowed to be happy or sad as time permitted.. she just wanted to know.

And I've only lived a year..

"Alyssa? Ah... oh ya!! Mammy told me about her a little bit! You're friends with her! Hehe, well I hope everything is going okay with her now.. Mom was really glad to help."

Kaida frowned suddenly and looked away from Joy. "We have not spoken for quite some time...I went to visit, but the doctor told me she was unstable..so..I left." A hand rested on the back of her tanned neck, caressing the skin gently as the memories flooded her mind unwillingly.

She had gone in when she heard some gossip for other students about a girl who was dragging an unconcious male from teh training room. The one thing that the student saw was brilliantly colored hair; every color imaginable was tinted int he girl's blonde hair. Kaida had freaked out knowing exactly whom he was speaking of.

With unnatural speed the dragoness had rushed over to the hospital to apologize to Alyssa and comfort her through ehr time of need; that is what best friends did. However, the doctor told her that Alyssa was dangerously unstable, and they couldn't allow such a close friend to see her in such a condition.

The thought of losing Alyssa killed Kaida, and she could no longer argue with the doctor. They had been conversing with booming voices for an hour until Kaida finally gave in and sulked out. That was the last time she heard about Alyssa.

"I don't have any.. mother says I might get them when I'm older.. or that I have to prove myself to the goddess before she rewards me with extra powers.. but I want to help mommy NOW!"

She jumped at Joy's powerful voice the echoed through the springs. It also caused her to focus back upon the infant girl. It took her a moment to recall what they were speaking of, but Kaida could sigh and let another hand stroke her face. "Sometimes...people are made differently to give them their own personality. To let them discover their own dreams instead of those of relatives." Kaida spoke in words far beyond her age; compliments of her mother.

When Joy began pouting due to her lack of abilities, Kaida frown became more apparent. She disliked seeing such an energetic child so upset about not being the same as her mother. Personally, Kaida found individuality a beautiful thing; she would love to be regular like Joy; however, the dragoness kept that a secret.

Her long, crimson mane was drying itself due to the heat that radiated off Kaida; the water seemed warmer than the rest as well. And no, she did not pee in the springs. She did not seem fazed by the change in tempature. In fact she welcomed it gladly.

"Do you ever wish you could know everything for just a second, so that when you needed to know something you could simply remember it then forget it in a second?"

Her lashes fluttered several times as Kaida stared at Joy with a surprised expression; this girl should have been her age if not older. There was no way a five year old could speak with such ability. Not even she could do that.

Her finger tapped lightly against her chin as she thought about a response for the young one. Knowledge was something the dragoness had treasured ever since she was a pre-teen, but to know everything for a split second? It seemed to surreal and crazy. "To know everything for onyl a second would be a devastating thing for a person. You see everything, but then it all disappears. Someone would go crazy if that happened...I know I would." Her voice was soft and distant; she was still thinking of a better way to put it. Kaida never thought tshe made sense.

"It's not like I want to be exactly like my mom, Rather I want to be useful so I can always be with her. Whenever my mother is busy healing people at the hospital, I can't be with her because the doctors say I'd be bugging her.. so I figure if I have healing talents they'd let me help Celeste. As for my dreams.. well I may be five but I've only lived a year, it'll take me a while to figure out what I want to do in the future, right now I only want to be by my mom."

Kaida stayed silent, only nodding in agreement. It had just clicked within her head that she completely misunderstood the question, and it made her feel like a complete idiot. If this weren't Joy..just a normal five-year old, she wouldn't feel so dumb. Then again no five-year olds that this much made up and could speak with such intentions.

She sighed and shifted her body some, trying to keep her bosoms within the top; not to mention keep joy from being blinded. "Maybe that's just it...you are not supposed to work with your mother. Rather someone else you can relate with. Perhaps this is a way to meet new people and not have to depend on your mother so much.." Kaida shrugged, and ran a hand through the girl's hair once more. "Of course...my mother never cared once my abilities became apparent."

The memory of Kaida's mother flooded her mind and nearly made her vomit. She had gotten angry with her once and ended up exploding into flames. Every color possible danced upon every inch of her body; it was quite scary considering it was the first time Kaida was able to do that.

Her mother retaliated by turning into a dragon, being one of the perks of being a dragoness, and nearly blew the roof off with one of her bellowing roars. Kaida immeadiately returned to normal, but in tears. Her mother never looked at her the same way again. A few days after Kaida was sent away to Ria without so much as a goodbye from her mother.

"You sound just like my mom."

Kaida laughed loudly, kissing Joy's forehead without a second thought. Deep down, the dragoness could have taken her in as her own. Though, her own temper would probably drive Joy mad. "Well..I do act beyond my age..thanks to my mother." Her voice dropped with enthusiasm as she spoke of her mother, but then shrugged it off.