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 Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:40 pm
"Everywhere." Isolde said certainly. "He can fly planes too and he's been to temples and ruins and all over Europe and Asia and Africa. Everywhere except Antartica because people won't let him just to go and have a look around."
When they reached Oliver, Isolde plopped down on the blanket and announced, "Ask wants to hear a story about vikings and mythology and stuff!"
Oliver hmmd. "A story about vikings and mythology and stuff. We'll this one's not about vikings, but stop me if you've heard this one before.
Now Odin, he was the king and the leader of all the gods of the northmen, and he had a son named Thor. Thor was brave and bold but not especially clever, and he had a wife named Sif, who was beautiful and had beautiful blonde hair. Thor was proud of his wife and he loved her a lot, but Thor didn't get along too well with this chap named Loki. Loki wasn't a god like the others; he was a giant, but he hung out with the gods a lot all the same. Loki and Thor didn't like each other much. Loki could outsmart Thor but Thor could beat Loki in straight out fights, so Loki decided to get back at Thor by making it look like Sif loved him. One day when Sif was sleeping, Loki snuck into her room and cut all the hair off her head with his magic scissors (cause, of course, only magical scissors could cut the hair of a goddess) and went to show the hair to Thor so he could say Sif gave him the hair because she liked him so much. But Sif woke up first and she was bald and she started making a ruckus. Everyone knew it would be Loki who was the cause of this cause it was always Loki pulling tricks like that. So Loki didn't get the better of Thor, but he had to replace all of Sif's beautiful golden blonde hair, which he couldn't do. So Loki had to go down to some dwarves and bargain with them to make some magical hair of pure gold, the softest metal, that would grow from Sif's head like real hair. The dwarves didn't really want to do that, since they had so much of their own work to do, but it didn't do much good to say no to a guy as powerful as Loki. So they made him run some errands so they could make the hair, and then they put it back into Sif's head where it grew just like real hair, and Loki didn't get into any more trouble for a little bit after that. But Loki's the type to always get himself back into trouble.
Now, Isolde, Ask, was that a good story?"
Isolde nodded earnestly around her bacon sandwich.
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:47 pm
"Yeah, that was good. I'd hate to have hair made of metal, but my Mom would be over the moon for hair like that." Ask said as he tucked into a bacon sandwich of his own.
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:33 pm
Oliver was eating watercress but he was smiling around his sandwich. He loved telling kids stories. Isolde was an especially attentive audience. But he knew she wasn't as attentive as usual, which was probably because of her new acquaintance, but also because of the presence of the pedal boats. She had been excited about them ever since she found out they existed.
Sure enough, Isolde finished her bacon sandwich, wiped her mouth, neatened her place, and looked at the pedal boats.
She turned her baby blues to Oliver, doing her best "Pretty please" look. "Oliver, will you take us on a boat ride now? I want to go on the pond. Ask does too, right, Ask? He helped me sail the boats so now we should take him on a boat ride. Please?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:07 pm
Ask nodded in agreement that a boat ride would be fun and finished up his sandwich. "If there's room for me, I would like to go." He was actually rather excited, he liked water. His four wings quivered a bit in excitement.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:48 pm
Oliver selected the boat which he deemed most pond-worthy and sat at the pedals. He helped Isolde hop in and settle herself down beside him, and then helped Ask into the boat, and started to pedal around the circuit of the pond. The ducks had to swim out of the way as the boat moved. Isolde watched the remaining paper boats on the pond, and started talking again to Ask. "Daddy says that I'm going to get wings when I grow up too. Why do you have two sets of wings? No one else at the house has wings and there are a lot of people at the house. Do you come to the pond a lot? I like the pond. I hope we come here all of the time when Daddy and Mother are golfing. Where's your driver?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:39 pm
Oh, the little girl must be a meta too. It was odd she didn't know the difference. "That's because I'm an archangel meta. The people in your home are probably all human. I don't have a driver, my mom drives us where we need to go, and we like coming to the pond."
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:56 pm
Isolde seemed puzzled when Ask said he didn't have a driver, and Oliver chuckled when her face screwed up in confusion. All the people she had met at Mother and Daddy's clubs and golf games had drivers. "But doesn't your mom have headaches and need her rest after she plays golf? Who drives if she's not feeling good or she's still eating when you need to go somewhere or if she's going into the city and doesn't want her dress messed up?"
Isolde seemed to be actually anxious about Ask's mother's welfare and driving. The question of wings was completely forgotten.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:03 pm
Ask had to sort out all of those questions. "My mom doesn't wear dresses that can be mussed just by driving unless she's going to a party. She also knows how to schedule so she's not doing anything when I need something and she thinks golf is dumb. And when she gets headaches I heal them. She doesn't need a driver and neither do I."
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:13 pm
The revelation that some people didn't need drivers seemed to rock Isolde's world. Her daddy and her mother seemed to believe that having a driver was absolutely necessary, and she didn't know that they could get on without them.
She sat looking at Ask in awe for a few moments as Oliver continued to pedal the boat around, oblivious to the duck's senseless quacking. Then something else Ask had said caught her attention.
"You can heal headaches too?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:22 pm
"Cuts and Bruises too." He said, amused that he'd rocked her world with not needing a driver. "Amongst other things." He watched the ducks and enjoyed the boat ride.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:38 pm
Isolde's face screwed up again.
"Can you do that cause you're a mep- a meta? Am I supposed to do that to?"
This was the first Oliver had heard of powers. He knew that Isolde was an angel- or something- his employers hadn't explained very clearly; Katya wasn't interested and Derek seemed pretty confused except that his little girl would grow wings, so they'd need to have her clothes specially tailored, and she would grow pretty quickly. It was lucky that they ran into this boy now, as opposed to later; he was certain the Mister and the Missus hadn't read any of the literature they were provided with when they adopted Isolde. Someone in the house should at least know what Isolde should be expecting.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:46 pm
"They really haven't told you anything. You will have powers because you're a meta. Angel or Demon? You're probably an angel. Powers are mostly unique and have to do with the first item we're given." He leaned back in the boat.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:07 am
They were three quarters around the circuit of the pond.
"Mother said Daddy gave me a teacup and then I made it disappear when they came to get me but I don't remember making it disappear, I just remember being giving the teacup." Isolde looked really anxious.
"Teacups don't do anything. How can I have teacup powers? What are tea cup powers? Do you have Tylenol powers and that's why you can fix headaches?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:59 am
"No, I was given a baseball bat. But we're angelic, so we lean towards the healing spectrum. My powers are not like "hit a home run" powers either. Don't worry about the powers Isolde, they'll manifest and then you'll learn to control them, it's not a big deal." Ask thought a moment. "I'll give you my home phone number so you can call me and my Mom, she knows a bit about us too, for if you have questions. We also know a lot of kids like us." He reached out and patted her head.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:44 pm
Clueless little Isolde was overwhelmed with Ask's offer to help.
"THANKS!" she squealed, and threw herself across the boat to give him a hug. Oliver's warning cry of "Isolde-DON'T" and his lunge to stop her came to late- and in fact helped to unbalance the boat. It toppled, and with a splash all three went tumbling into the water.
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