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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:12 pm
"Lookit Mommy, I stroke Keela." Jacosa whispered and smiled at his mother. He had known she'd come back, she was at the bathroom often now. In the mornings she made strange noises and came back pale. Sometimes he wondered if she ate soap.
Right now he concentrated on the meercat though and continued petting the little one. His paw made small circles as it moved through the fur and he bit his lip, because this was very exhausting. Don't push too much, but push at all.
Andraste nodded and kneeled down. "Andraste, nice to meet you. You know Jacosa already. Pretty meercat."
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:20 pm
"He's a delightful child - and tons quieter then my little ball of Mufasa-munch." Patrick grinned and glanced up to Jacosas face, lips quirking into a faint smile.
"You don't have to pet anymore..he fell asleep." A quiet laugh and he moved to touch the otters paw gently. "That's how we get him into bed without screaming actually. Thank you, Cosa. He only falls asleep for people he likes."
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:26 am
Andraste raised an eyebrow quite astonished about the comment. Everytime she came to this place everybody seemed to have a child, which was even more active than her little one. She wasn't quite sure if she could believe it, especially not when Jacosa decided to paint the TV.
"Thank you. He isn't always quite though." The mother shrugged and moved one hand through Jacosa's black hair. The otter woke from his trance and stared at the sleeping baby. "Oh...asleep."
Jacosa always went to bed without screaming, because Andraste didn't care to push him into bed. He was allowed to go when he wanted, but it was boring to be the only one who was awake. So he usually went to bed, when Andraste did or fell asleep on the couch before. "Likes me ?" The otter grinned and revealed his tooth by doing so, the other one was obviously missing.
"Me likes badtub. Keela likes too ?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:31 am
"No, they never are, are they...always quiet that is." A faint smile from the dark man. He was inwardly pleased that Akilah had finally met someone he liked outside of the family - the little brat hardly 'spoke' to people outside of his little self-prescribed 'clan'.
It was frustrating sometimes.
Carefully, his fingers moved to wrap around his limp son, grinning a little bit more. "He's not too fond of the water, yet. It scares him that he can see things in it but still...hits water. Like I said..just ababy still. "
Akilah, deep in his peaceful, pettings induced slumber, released the little otters paw with a dreamy chirrup, curling obligingly against his fathers chest. The white and black bundle curled against him in a tight ball, relaxed and churring softly under his breath.
"You said you can read a little, Cosa...what'cha like to read?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:42 am
Andraste nodded and smiled. "Jacosa was a funny baby, he babbled all the time but nobody was able to understand him. He didn't care though." She shook her head, a bit sad that he wasn't so little anymore. The woman definately remembered how scared she had been when he learned how to crawl.
Jacosa was very busy with watching the sleeping other one and just smiled. He liked him, he was fuzzy and nice. No otter of course, but who cared ? "Want one too." He turned around to tell Andraste, who just shook her head.
It took the otter a while until he noticed that the question had been directed at him. "I like fffairee tales." Phew, difficult words.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:04 pm
"Akilah...is just..a very.." A pause, nose wrinkling as he stared down at the contented little bundle of trilling, snoozing furr in his arms, "...I dunno what kind of baby he is, but he's not a regular little brat."
In the back of his mind, Patrick was pondering how many kids there were, already, through the rift. Maybe another meerkat? But no... Cosa had said he'd never seen something like Akilah before. A faint grin crossed his lips when the small otter told his mother that he wanted one, heavily pierced eyebrows arching at the mention of fairie tales.
"Fairie tales, really? What's your favorite one? My daughter is partial to Rapunzel, so that's the one I've been reading most. What about you?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:03 pm
"He's unique. That's pretty good in my eyes." Andraste answered as she watched Jacosa. She liked him. Alright, at first she totally didn't want him, but that had changed and now she loved him dearly.
"Really. Me likes the one with princess and frog." They had lent it from the library and since then he had tried to read it properly. But most of the time he made out stories when looking at the pictures. "Wassit Rapunzel 'bout ?"
His eyes watched the man curiously before turning back to the baby. Somehow it became boring. When did it wake up again ?
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:47 pm
((@_@ I am SO SORRY it took me so long. I was struck down by the Cold of all Colds and then the internet shut down and ...X_x;; ))
"Unique is best when someone understands. C'mon, sit down while I tell the tale of Rapunzel!" Patrick laughed quietly, patting a hand down beside him and the otter.
The dark man paused, wondering how he could start such a tale as the one of Rapunzel. "Well... it's about a girl who was kept up in a high, high tower by an evil witch before a handsome prince rescued her." A faint smile, glancing back down at the little snoozing meerkat.
The little otter was utterly adorable - like a 'regular' little kid, asking questions, glancing around and curious about every little thing about the world. It was...intruiging. Interesting to see how something almost so animalistic could speak and move and interact with people... How did their vocal chords work? Did they see color? How was their hearing - advanced? Like a humans?
Ooooh, the possibilities..
"He'll sleep for a few more minutes before popping awake," A soft snicker, head shaking, "He's a weird little thing."
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:54 am
(( Don't worry. We've got time smile I hope you feel better now ))
Andraste watched Jacosa as he sat down beside the man without any fear and listened to the story. "How high ?" He thought about the highest building he knew and quickly his eyes moved towards the ceiling to estimate it. "High as skybluesunmoooon ?"
Jacosa blinked twice before forgetting about the story and the heights again and looked at the baby. "Sleeping is boring." He muttered and Andraste shook her head. Sleeping was nice, oh yes, indeed. "He's a baby Jacosa, babies need a lot of sleep."
The otter scratched his head and thought about poking the baby. Just a bit, just a tiny tiny bit. He extended his paw...
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:48 pm
((I am -now-...XD Which means faster replies! WHOOPAH.))
"Almost that high," he assured the child, "Higher then any building in Gaia, but the skybluesunmoon were still out of reach. It was very high, though, and she had very long hair." The dark man smiled faintly - Jacosa was fairly adorable! He had this guy twisted firmly around his little paw.
Then again, patricks mind was reeling with how a child, obviously so outwardly animalistic, could speak better then many human (-ish) children could when they were older and was obviously smart indeed... Oh, this was going to be an interesting ride with little Akilah. A miniature science project, if you will.
Seeing that cute ittle paw, Patricks own hand, the one that wasn't filled with a dozing meerkat, moved out to bap gently at the toddlers paw. "If you wake him up, he'll scream." Still, his voice was mild, amused even at the childs stunt. It was...cute. Few of Patricks children could ever be cute, "And he screams very loud and very much like a girl does. It's not pleasent."
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:30 pm
"Woow thatis hiiigh." Jacosa's eyes started to sparkle as he thought about it. He wanted long hair too that would be cool, he would be able to climb things and be saved.
The otter pulled his paw back and sighed. Probably babies weren't so good at all if they sleep a lot regularly. Ewww....Akilah screamed like girls ?
"Me heard scream howse girl. Not nice." Jacosa covered his ears and was quite sure that he didn't want to hear that.
Andraste nodded and tried to explain. "We were here once and there was a small girl, who was a tad bit angry...."
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:34 pm
"Yes, it is." He laughed softly, head shaking a little bit, nose wrinkling a little bit. Indeed, babies weren't all that good - Akilah was a psycho little kid to begin with and an awakened, grumpy little meerkat was NOT something he wanted to deal with.
He hoped no one would want to deal with that either. Ugh.
"A horse? There's a horse girl as well?" Curiousity sprinkled in those dark eyes, eyebrows arching slightly as his finger moved to stroke over the soft white and black furr of his meerkat. "How many different species have come through the rift? Jacosa was the first other Fourth Wall child I've met, other then Akilah."
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:56 am
Jacosa of course didn't know anything about rifts and his specialty and just stared at the man for a moment, his nose twitching slightly. Did he want to know who he knew ?
"I-knee is friend. We play snow and she is dagon. Has fluffy tail."
Andraste shook her head. "She's a Fennec Fox, indeed. The dragon was just a game Jacosa."
The otter didn't seem to mind and tried to remember different people. "Kaeru is frog. He can fly. Me can not." He pouted for a moment before going on. "Jade is Panda.
Is..Belen. Looks like fish, but isn't."
"He's an axolotl." Andraste commented and Jacosa gave up and stared at the snoring meercat again.
"I really don't know how many there are, but we met quite a few. I think there also was a white tiger baby and a few others I forgot."
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:56 pm
((GAIA IS WORKING! -=dances around=-))
He wanted to know. This place was a science dorks dream - another world, filled with anthropormorphic animals of all different species that one could watch grow - and Patrick wasn't regreting it for a single moment.
"A fennec fox, a frog, a panda and an axolotl? That's...pretty cool." His eyes are wide, glancing back at Cosa with a little grin. "Did you defeat the drag--gyah!"
Right when he was speaking, Akilah chose...to wake himself up. The small ball of fluff gave a great rumble and a churr before uncurling, diminutive frame stretching out. A quiet purr left him as the thing shifted on his lap/arm, big black eyes blinking open, staring up at Jacosa and Patrick and Andraste.
"....chirr?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:00 am
"Cool ? I don't know, I thought it was freaky at first." Andraste admitted and poked Jacosa, who was staring at the baby like in trance.
The otter blinked and nodded very exaggeratedly. "Yeees, me push her in snow." He grinned and squealed in delight as Akilah awoke.
He moved his paw towards the small one's head and petted it very slightly as if he wanted to say hello. "Chirr." Jacosa mocked and smiled. That was a secret language, for sure.
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