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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:01 pm
"I'm good, and King's not bad too. He doesn't really like the cold though." Rex thumped his tail on the soft white ground, and started rolling his own snow-katamari too.
As if to prove Rex right, King rumbled unhappily. His unhappiness was short-lived, however, when the tyrannosaurus noticed the strange manner in which the white ground acted under his tail. Taking over control of said tail, King wagged it around, brushing aside the white covering to reveal the earth underneath.
Interesting!
The tyrannosaur opened his jaw in a sort of a grin, and whipped his tail around him, sending sprayed of snow in front of and beside him.
Rex was momentarily distracted from his 'work' by Cato. Looking up, he peered curiously at the dark, spidery for quite some time, before speaking up. "Hi, is he not happy?"
His eyes wandered off to the bloodied snow and spoon. Well, the answer was obvious, wasn't it?
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:46 pm
"Cold not too bad, if he cold he can eat soup. Mama bring soup and cookies.. and crackers.. and sammichies.." She began to list the foods her mother brought for the small picnic that they planned to do while they were outside. She rolled and rolled, the balll nearly three times he size. "I wanna make a magie snowman so he can dance." She grinned gleefully as she then winced at the wailing Cato. "Cah-do so whiny, if Rhadie was here he called Cah-do a bad name and then he'd be place in time out, buh Rhadie deserves it sometimes cuz he a poohead."
"Aphrodite!" Baxterfullous said sternly, " You know how your mother feels about that sort of language - " He quickly interuppted her interjection. " - And I don't care what you hear the grownups say."
"Okies.. " She pouted. "Rhadie's not a poohead, he's just a meanie." Of course she was describing the recent addition to her uncles family. Two saytrs, one was named Rhadamanthus, a kid with a mean streak a mile long and a temper to rival Deimos, and Leonie on the other hand, was a bit nicer and adventurous. " Uncle Duke got some kids, he said he do good thing because they are in troubles. I dun understand what troubles." She shrugged, going around the wiggling tail. "Hehe.. Hi hi.. Mr. King you still cold?" She grinned up at him waving.
Catherine winced at the wailing, by the gods she was lucky Aphrodite wasn't that much of a fussy baby. Thinking quickly she though up a plan. "Cato.. lookie at me.. come on look at me..." She wiggled her fingers to try and catch the crying baby's attention. Taking a new spoon from the baby bag and scooping up a big scoop of bloody baby food, moving the spoon in a fashion to look like it was flying. "Come on Cato you have to open up wide so you can catch the butterfly!"
Baxterfullous stared at the spoon that was embedded into the ground, the blood splashed by it. Staring at it gave him a gruesome reminder to memory he shook violently away from his thoughts.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:17 pm
" I think we found them!" He exclaimed, trugding his way up a minor hill, waving over to Catherine and Salem with his free hand, carefully balanced in the other was Nariko. Dressed for winter, he wore a pair of simple leather gloves, jeans, boots, a nice blue sweater. "How's everythin-" He blinked at the wailing child. "Hey Rhad you got a rival on who can yell longer." He chuckled, adjusting the weight of the baby he held in his arms.
" Pah, this is stupid, why are we outside. It's cold." The young saytr grimaced at all the snow. He was dressed in simple pair of pants that Duke had to wrestle him in and shirt.
"Well it wouldn't be so cold if you wore your sweater." On Duke's back was a bookbag, which looked rather full. Behind his legs was a much smaller satyr, she looked a bit sleepy after having such an eventful day, leaning against the back of his leg, she drifted quietly to sleep as he stood there. She on the other hand was dressed far more warmly than her older counterpart. Duke suspected it was because he suggested to Rhad to wear a sweater and decided to rebel for no other reason beside that. "Rhad, where the damn thing please, you're going to get sick."
"Why would you care anyways?" He huffed, shivering, he hated to admit Duke was right.
"Now that's stupid question I've answered before, because I care about you and I don't want you to get sick."
"..." Shivering he looked around and then at Duke, his eyes spoke the truth, but he didn't want to beleive them.
Sleepily, Leonie muttered. "Just wear it, you're being stupid."
"Fine." He finally admitted defeat, sneezing a bit.
Duke sighed, he knew that Rhad was gonna get sick. This arguement lasted the entire day and now that they were outside and in the snow he knew it wasn't going to last much longer. Settling Nariko in the snow, knowing she wasn't going to fuss due to be an ice maiden, he dugg into the book back pulling out an oversized red sweater, tossing it over to Rhad.
Pulling the sweater over his head, he let the warmth flow over him.
Making his way over to Rhad he also handed him a pair of leather gloves and a scarf. "You don't have to wear them if you don't want to."
"..." gulping, he sighed slipping on the gloves without a protest and wrapping the warm scarf around his neck.
Picking up the baby from the snow once more, he made his way over towards Catherine, Salem, and the crying Cato.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:05 am
"Hm..?" He looked over at the very tall child when he spoke. "Oh, Cato? Heh... He doesn't like to eat things that aren't alive. I can't carry live things with me though... He's just upset that he's not getting what he wants... By the way, my name's Salem. Who might you be and how old are you, if you don't mind me asking." Salem smiled sweetly despite the screaming child and having to hold the little hands. He seemed well used to this. "I'm asking because I may start working here as a teacher and would like to know who I may be teaching."
Cato continued to flail and wiggle, refusing to willingly eat the spoonful. He wanted something that moved!!! "A-AHHHHH!!! NUUUUUHHHH!!!" Quite the unruley child wasn't the little one?
"Hey there Duke. Same as always as you can see... How're things going with you? Everything fine back at Home? Heh... Rhad is being the perfect little angel as always I see..." He gave Duke a smile before looking back the the other mishap, waiting for his response.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:20 am
"...Cato! Look! " Waving her hand over the bloody food in the jar and spoon it began to wiggle and squirm. "Lookie.. it's moving!" She grinned with mock enthusiam.
Nariko blinked as she was dropped off onto the snow. touching the forgien substance it made her feel... safe. bending foreward she plnated her head face first into the snow. "FWUUUUUUUUU!"
Garreth was wrapped warmly, feeling sluggish in the cold weather. "Mama! Mama! I had chocolate chip! We brough' you some, but we couldn't keep in in the bag so we put in the fridge at home! " The happy baby dragon bounded over towards Salem and Cathering, nuzzling the side of her thigh. "Mama, Nariko made a mess and she had to take a bath so we came home early! I played in the jungle gym!" Though his sluggish feeling was gone as soon as he saw his mother!
Being picked up once more she whined from the comfort of the cool white thiny. "Baaaaaaaaaaahhh..." She reached and wriggled, sighing she settled on sucking on her amulet.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:51 am
King blinked at the tiny figure that was Aphrodite, and chirred questioningly down at her. "Hrr?"
Oh, if only he could understand human speech.
"Ah.." Rex tilted his head and peered at Cato lopsidedly. Now why would someone prefer to feed on live things? Shrugging, he turned his gaze to Salem, and smiled back up at him.
"Nice to meet you, Salem. I'm Rexier Gaver, but you can just call me Rex. And my twin here," he turned his head a little so that King was visible to the man, "Is King." There was a pause as Rex pondered on his age. Well, no one has asked about it until now, so the boy was at quite a lost to answer it. "As for age... well, I'm older than Aphrodite and... Cato." That's the name of Salem's charge, right?
"'Bout the same as Dei, slightly younger though."
Rex looked over as more figures appeared. He shrank back into his snowless patch a little, peering at the growing crowd uneasily. Oh boy, he'd better leave. Soon. Crowds were never his thing, no sir.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:36 pm
Cato blinked as it suddenly started moving. Wait... It was alive! Ha! The struggle stopped that instant and he snapped up the bloody baby food, happily swollowing it.
"Oh, thank the Gods... Cath-babe, you're so good with kids, thank you so much!" He quickly turned his attention back to the twins. "Rex and King. A pair of conjoined twins I see. Um... Can he understand us at all? If not I may need to bring a little help with me so he'll understand... I'll have to ask if Gairbith can come first though... After all he is a Great Wyrm Dragon so he's huge. Makes you look real small, I can tell you that. How long do you think he is? Take a guess!" He smiled sweetly at the twins, blinking as they started t back off. "Umm... Cath-baby, can you watch Cato for me for a bit? Thanks a lot." He gently handed the baby over so he could be fed and got up, leaving all the baby things with her as well. "Do you like horses Rex?" He smiled and looked... Well... Up... At him... Damn this was a tall kid... He started to head to the stables a little farther away, slowly of course to see if the child followed.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:45 pm
Rex got up, taking great care not to step on Aphrodite and trotted after Salem, glad to be able to leave the crowded place.
"No, King doesn't understand human speech. He can understand me though, so I tell him what other people said to him." A pause. "And I tell if he wants to let people know something, especially when it's food related."
As for horses? "Yes, I like them. Mom has a couple we just moved into the stables, so I get to visit them whenever I want. Mr. Salem has horses here too?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:32 pm
Looking at the baby in her arms, she pondered for a moment. "Aphrodite are you hungry?" She asked over the noise of the children and one very noisy cow.
"Hungee?" The tiny toddler blinked, a small rumbvle did erupt from her belly. "Mama I hungee." She yelled buzzing her way from her snow ball and over towards her mother.
"Ok.. umm.." Balancing Cato in her arms, she closed the jar of bubbling and squiggling baby food and puting it away in her pocket. Making her way over towards the stool where she sat she picked up the large wooden basket, once more balancing Cato and the basket. Making her way towards a small ways away from the farm and under a tree. Settling the basket, she waved her hand over the basket activating the charm on it. Blankets and towels flying out of the basket. Towels covered the snow covered floor as then a picnic blanket went over that. Setting Cato down on the warm blanket, she began to unpack food. "Kid's! Bax! Lunch!" Good assortment of food was settled out over the large blanket. "Duke bring the kids over here, ok? Have you guys eaten?"
"Commin' Mama!" Garreth grinned as he came running over to where his mother was, smiling at the warmth underneath him. Aphrodite was sitting on top of his head.
"Mama I wanna make a snowman."
"Later, right now it's lunch." She settled a paper plate infront of Aphrodite, it had fruits, small pieces of bread and a thimble filled with hot cocoa. Catherine settled another paper plate infront of Garreth, it was about the same, but in a far larger qauntity.
Chewing on the food infront of her, sitting next to Garreth she looked up to her mother. " Can we make a snowman Mama?"
"We can try after lunch." Taking out a bottle of cold juice and small container of rice pudding for Nariko. Seeing as she had three more mouths to feed, she dug into the Basket pulling out hot soup and cocoa. Afterwards, she finally found Baxterfullous's salmon fillet and champange and set it out for him. She quickly turned her attention back to Cato. Pulling him onto her lap and taking out his bubbling and squiggling baby food out. She promptly began to feed him. "Open wide!"
Baxterfullous sipped at his fine champange quietly, ah to be surrounded by family and those you love was true meaning of this most glorious season. Looking up from her glass. "You should eat too Catherine."
"I will, just let me get Cato fed and then I'll try getting him to drink from his bottle."
"If you say so."
"Buubu.." She tugged onto Duke's hair, as though pulling some sort of reigns to make him walk faster.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:13 pm
"Oh, alright. I probably don't need to bring Gairbith with me then. He wouldn't fit in the stables so I guess that's a good thing. Garreth should be able to talk to him anyway, now that I thought about it... Anyway, no I don't have horses. Well... Sort of... I take care of some unicorns and pegasus back at my adoption home. Some centaur as well. You take care of them about the same as horses. Well, not centaur, but unicorns and pegasus. Maybe I can bring them some day if I get the teaching job. Would you like that?" He walked along side the much taller child, enjoying the conversation they were having as they entered the stables where the horses were kept. "So, which ones are yours?"
Cato blinked as his food was suddenly put away. Huh? "Ahh..." He whined quietly then a little more loudly as he was put down, "Ahhh...!" He waved all of his little arms trying to get her attention back on him. "Ahhhh! AHHH!!" He quieted down as he was picked up again. Yeah... You better... Crazy lady... He opened his mouth and happily started eating again as if nothing had happened.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:41 pm
" No.. we haven't eaten yet..." Duke blinked, looking over at Catrherine lazily. He had never seen someone multitask so well. "I envy you." He winced as his hair was pulled, the babe had a rather firm grip on his hair. "Ow." He sighed. "Come on kid's it's lunch time, let's sit where Auntie Cat is." He smiled petting the top of Leonie's head.
Leonie perked up about the idea of food. "Hmm.. Smells good." she made her way over towards the blanket sitting in between Catherine and Garreth. Taking some bread and soup for herself.
Rhad blinked. "Food?" He sniffed he hated to admit it smelled really good, not really in the mood to make much of a fuss he sat himself down on the very large blanket taking a canteen of cocoa for himself and drinking it deeply.
Duke peered about sitting next to Rhadamanthus, patting his head a bit, taking to cold bottle of juice and feeding it to Nariko.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:01 pm
Taking a deep breath Catherine smiled, feeding Cato his bloody goop. Kissing the top of his head she smiled. "Good boy, Cato. You don't have to eat it all if you don't want to." She spoke to him, even though she knew he coudln't understand her very well.
Nariko guzzled down the cool drink happily. Hmm how she loved the cold, the weird white stuff and the stuff falling out of the sky. Closing her eyes she happily drank from the bottle, gripping onto it that she nearly pulled the bottle out of Duke's hands.
Aphrodite blinked watching her mother feed Cato. She remembered, rather vaguely of her baby time, when her mother fed her like that. Smiling she bit into her fruit peices, turning to kiss her brother's cheek. "I luff you baby bruther." She grasped the thimble filled with hot cocoa, taking a big drink from it. "Yum!"
He blushed as he was in mid bite. Giggling he smiled at aphrodite. "I love you too little big sissie." Giving her a lick to knock her on her side, giggling he used his draconic hand to pick her back up. "Sorry." He blushed.
"Is ok." She said a bit dazed and then laughed. "Mama! You made good food. Yum Yum!" She said in way to almost make it a point to over compliment her mother.
Catherine laughed a bit, she blinked at Rhadmanthus. "You feeling ok?" She pulled her hand over to feel his forehead as he drank.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:10 pm
Cato happily munched on his now wiggling food without complaint. He was also enjoying the warmth of being held. It was kinda cold put despite how bundled up Salem always made him, but still, he was content as he was there. He looked up at Catherine when she spoke to him with all four of his odd double eyes. You know... Looking at him like this he looked so cute and innocent... Who would have guessed...
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:25 pm
Rex marvelled at the number of magical creatures Salem took cared for. "Yeah, that'll be cool. Bring the pegasus especially, I've never really seen them." The child nodded, tail waving happily behind him. Silencer had a pair of unicorns at her other home, so he wasn't really particularly looking forward to meeting them.
"And the centaurs, maybe?" Yeah, those would be amazing. "I've only read about them in books, but they sound so awesome. Not like Orca at all."
Once in the stables, Rex rushed over to a stall near the back of the place. The boy motioned for Salem to follow, and waved at the two little foals within. One was a handsome black colt with a small white star on his forehead and a half pastern on the front right foot. The other was a chestnut filly with a blaze down her face and four different feet markings.
Ah, the warmth of the stables. King rumbled contently, eyeing the strange man beside him intensely.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:31 pm
Rhadamanthus felt a bit feverish, he quickly batted her hand away. "I'm fine." He said sternly, taking a bite into the bread. He leaned onto Duke almost unknowingly, this enviroment was so familiar. Being around so many people at once, eating and drinking merrily. He didn't want to admit it to himself, but he felt like it was home. Subconciously his anger subsided even if it was for a mere moment.
Duke blinked, a smile on his face. He dare not say a word to ruin the small moment of binding he had created.
Leonie leaned on Garreth, drinking from a container that had soup into. "Hmm. clam chowder..."
Duke blinked as he realized that Nariko had already finished her bottle, moving onto the cold rice pudding. "Hey Cat, what else you got int he basket?"
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