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 Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:01 am
Leviathan certainly didn't expect her to be so small! He frowned and eyed her breifly, wondering just how old she actually was, thought followed shortly by the notion that it probably didn't even matter. Which, of course, was followed by the shock that Orli was actually glowing. "How....how do you do that?" he asked, struggling to keep his jaw from dropping in shock. "That's amazing!" Juno would never believe him if he told him!
Shaking his head and blinking a few times (and wondering if maybe there was some truth to the notion that caffeine did bad things to him), he trotted ofter Orli, settling into a comfortable walk by her side. At least she was easy to catch up with. "So, is everything magic, or...?" Leviathan trailed off, trying not to sound like a complete idiot. He just had no idea how magic worked!
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:26 am
Orli boggled her eyes at him. "I just told you how I do it," she said. "I'm a Star. We glow. It's our verb. It's what we do."
They were walking down the street now, moving in and out of the pools cast by the fake-antique fake-gas streetlights. She shrugged thoughtfully. "It's not all magic," she sighed, "I've never heard anyone describe me as magic, except myself when I was way younger. But some things are indistinguishable."
The street dumped them into the square after a bit of walking. Orli looked around and made a beeline for a man sitting on a picnic table with a guitar in his lap.
"Come on!" she called back to Levi. "This guy is amazing!"
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:16 am
"....wait. What?" Leviathan frowned and tipped his hed, trying to make sense of what his tour guide just told him. "What do you mean, you're a 'star'? Like...one from the sky? Did you fall?" he asked, realizing he had stopped walking. The boy jumped into a jog to catch up, trying to listen and take everything in. He was certainly awake now!
It was hard to keep up with Orli, though. The girl was on a mission and Leviathan kept getting distracted, hesitating as he walked by everything. There was just so much to see and explore, why hadn't he ventured out here before? Oh, what was that? The guitar-playing hobo?
Leviathan blinked and turned, leaving the glimmering lights for investigation at a later date. "Oh, yeah. I guess he is pretty good," he offered off-handedly. He was less interested in the music and more so in the magic. It was like a whole new world!
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:11 pm
Orli nodded and swayed to the music for a bit. When the song ended, she dropped a dollar into the man's guitar case and pulled Levi off to another part of the park.
"Yup," she nodded. "I'm a Star. We're sort of like the ones in the sky? But we're not balls of gas. We're connected to 'em, though. I don't know much about it."
She grinned and hopped up onto a park bench. She walked its length back and forth twice. "I guess I must've fallen, but I don't remember much about it. Mom says I came out of a cabbage."
She hopped off the bench and looked Levi up and down. "How about you?" she asked. "What're you?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:19 pm
"There are more of you? Do you guys all live together and stuff?" Leviathan continued to question Orli, never once considering she might not want to play twenty questions about herself. Heavens knew Leviathan hated to talk about himself. So of course, the star had to ask, didn't she? The boy paused for a moment, considering all the possible answers before settling on, "I'm from a cabbage, too. I'm supposed to be a summon, or something.
"So, are we going to look at other things, or? Because I don't think I can find my way home from here," the lobster-child admitted, rubbing the back of his head as he glanced around. Sure, he'd been in town before, but not this part, and not when it was all weird and dark like this.
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:27 pm
Orli made a face and shook her head. "No," she said, "I live with my mom and my brother Nah and my sister Ranza. Nah's a jaguar and Ranza's a parrot and Mom's half alien." It was true that Stars had a city that she had visited, but she didn't live there.
"Yeah," she nodded, "We're gonna go look at other stuff." She waved for him to follow her out of the park and off down a sidestreet. There were fewer streetlights, and her own personal glow cast interesting shadows off the old architecture. "I tol you, you're gonna see Durem by Starlight, yeah?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:25 am
"Well, you never know," Leviathan muttered, frowning ever so slightly. He folded his arms over his chest as she followed after his tour guide into the side street, sulkiness quickly being subdued by his growing sense of wonder. "The world is full of.....false advertising, you know," he murmured, maybe more to himself than Orli.
"So what are we going to see now?" he asked, tearing his eyes away from the buildings as he bounced after his new friend. Yeah, friend would be a decent word for her. Even if she was friends with Ishi too, Orli didn't suck nearly as much as his house mate. Or at all, frankly. "More singing hobos?" he teased.
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:33 pm
"No," called Orli, running ahead of him, "I don't know any more singing hobos. I do know some really awesome graffiti, though!"
At the end of the alley was the huge stucco wall of a warehouse. Orli's light bounced off the wall, illuminating an incredibly intricate mural. Gods, angels, people, and animals twisted in and out of an urban jungle of buildings that turned seamlessly into trees. It wasn't quite finished at the edges.
"I don't know who does it," explained Orli, "But they've added something new every time I come here!"
A tinny little beeping noise filled the air. Orli looked down at her wrist: it was a watch alarm. "Woah!" she exclaimed. "It's like after midnight!" She looked over at Levi.
"We should probably get back," she explained sheepishly, and motioned for him to follow her back to the main street.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:32 am
"Whoa. This is like...totally rad, man."
Leviathan traced his fingers over the wall's image, mouth gaping a little as he tried to take in the entirety of the image. It was enormous, and, by the looks of it, been working on for years. The lobster boy found himself wondering if the same artist did the whole thing, or perhaps if the mastermind had help. "It's like an entire world, or something. Mad awesome. mad."
He looked up at the beeping noising, frowning a little when his tour guide announced the time. "...s**t. I need to go home before anyone notices I'm gone." He looked around, realizing he had no idea where he was.
"Yeah. I should probably follow you back so I don't get lost here..."
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:35 am
"You know how to get back from the coffee shop, right?" she asked, skipping along a few steps ahead of him. She seemed more and more awake the longer the night went on.
After about a five minute walk, they arrived back where they had started, under the awning of the coffee shop.
Orli gave him a luminous smile. "It was cool to meet you, Levi," she declared.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:00 am
"Yeah, I can get home from the coffee shop," he replied, trotting after his new friend.
She might be waking up, but Leviathan felt like he could drop and sleep for a whole day! How did Ishi do it, staying up all night long?
He yawned and waved to Orli, amused her smile seemed so bright. He must be even more tired than he thought. "It was cool to meet you too, Orli. You're pretty rad." The 'for one of Ishi's friends' was left off. "I'll come back to visit you again sometime!"
And with that, the little lobster boy was off, hurrying home before anyone noticed he was out.
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