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 Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:15 am
"That is precisely the word. 'Gross' was what I said when I saw her. Her brother's very cool though." Ask grinned a little thinking of how awesome Theo was.
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:20 pm
"He doesn't have snakes coming out of his head?" Hank assumed the people Ask were talking about were special, like the two of them, but he had never heard of snakes coming out of someones head. He thought they were supposed to have wings.
"Did the snakes bite you?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:37 pm
"They glared at me and hissed but I was going to step on them if they tried anything." Ask said. It was clear from his face and voice that he really hated snakes.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:45 pm
Hank had nothing in particular against snakes so he was a bit surprised that Ask seemed so anti-snake.
That was ok then, he could come up with something else to talk about. . .eventually.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . so you have wings, I see."
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:47 am
"Well spotted. I have four in fact." Ask gave him a little grin. "Do you know if you're getting wings at some point?" Ask never assumed anything about wings, he had four as opposed to the regular two after all.
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:46 pm
Hank shrugged. "I dunno. Metz hasn't said much."
The rain was starting, slowly, with huge fat drops taking a long time to fall and sending tiny splashlets out to soak through the layers. The corners of Hank's mouth twitched upward slightly.
He liked to walk in the rain, but Metz and Shiny were talking really fast and seemed really intent on what they were doing. He would be here a while longer, but he didn't know what else to talk about. Metz never required much conversation from him.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:55 pm
"Oh. Well I can't fly with mine yet. They're too small." Ask said and turned to watch him mom and Ms. Metz jabber away like it was going out of style. "How do they say that much and not take a breath?" He asked wonderingly.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:56 pm
"Maybe. . . .they absorb it? Like fish in water?" The rain was starting to fall faster now, but Metz and Shiny. . . still . . .showed no signs of stopping their chat.
There was only one thing to do really.
Time to start puddle-jumping.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:39 pm
"Yes maybe they are. How can they have that much to say?" When Ask saw Hank wiggle out of his seat and start for the nearest puddle he chuckled and got out of his seat to join him in making an utter mess while Shiny and Metz were thoroughly distracted.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:51 pm
Luckily, Hank was still in his slicker and galoshes, although he left his umbrella on the table. The pavement around the cafe was old and nicely worn in places, and the dips were filling up quickly with water. A block or two down it became cobbles, and bad for puddle jumping, but this area was fabulous. Hank put his feet together, pumped his arms once, and jumped into the first big puddle he came to, just on the far side of the door."Hank, don't go to far away! Stay where I can see you!" Hank felt Metz was being a bit silly. Of course he wouldn't go far away. There weren't good puddles to be found far away.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:35 am
"I always have to keep towels in the car to keep a dirty ask off the seats." Shiny said to Metz upon observing Ask stomping through the muddiest puddle he could find.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:00 pm
"We walked, like normal, so Hank will just have to drip off and get dunked in the tub if he gets too dirty. He gets grubby in the back garden all of the time." Metz paused. "I wonder what he gets up to back there, but I think it would upset him if I tried to ask him about it.
Hank heard Metz talk about the garden and jumped a bit harder into the next puddle to relieve his feelings. He didn't want Metz nosing, even if she was concerned. He didn't nose on her secrets.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:54 pm
"Ask is rather a secretive child too. Silly boy." Shiny said with an indulgent smile.
Ask reached down and splashed some water from his puddle towards Hank. laughing.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:42 pm
Hank leaped a toddler leap into the puddle beside Ask and got him soaking wet. Just as Ask started to retaliate, CRASH. The threatening rain began coming down in torrents, complete with thunder and lightning.
"That's our cue to head out! It was great to see you Shiny, Ask! Come on, Hank, time to head home!" Metz gathered the now soaking Hank up in her arms, stuffed the bag of croissants between them, and swept up her umbrella to try and get home in through the rain.
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