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 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:26 pm
Amerald snickered with her replies. "That is definitely a good thing, dear." he said, smiling up at her.
He then nodded. "That is most certainly right. Her hair may be green and a bit eccentric now, just wait until she grows a little more. There may be added features you're not ready for." he replied.
He glanced down at the table as she explained a tad about her past. He was certain that her parents would probably not believe a word she was telling them, if she ever did tell them, but she could do as she wished, it was her family. Amerald always encouraged strong family values.
"I'm sorry to hear that, but it makes you strong, as will be your daughter. And yes, the process will be extremely painful for a short amount of time, but once she recovers, she will be good as new, most hraapea are." he said, picking each of them out and placing them on the table in front of her. "Hahah! Well, not all places can be, you know. There's electricity, ice, plants, light, earth, air, mind and metal." he said, picking each individual crystal up and placing it on the table in front of him. She had the choice, but then again, so did little Talika.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:28 am
'Good..I'm glad you find me such..I find you interesting as well.' Sati looked at him for a moment, seeming on the verge of saying more, but then decided against it.
'Should be fun, on top of the usual teenage hormones I mean.' she noted, looking at the crystals as he held each one up.
'Talika will need to be strong, you need strength to cope with being different as a human let alone..well, what she is.' she chuckled.
'No where around here is, your Annabelle must have a great deal of control over her power.' she straightened, rubbing the back of her neck and lifting the hair away from it for a moment.
'I don't know..air maybe?' she suggested, a little out of her depth with this sort of thing.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:57 pm
Amerald nodded to everything the woman said. "Air than? If that is your choice, please go fetch your daughter from the upstairs. Anna and Amelia will be pleased to see you again. They have taken quite a liking to your daughter already." he said smiling. He was sure that his girls would hopefully be role models for the little one.
He then took up the Quartz crystal and smiled. Yes, this would be nice. The girl may be able to control air and that would be great. He couldn't wait to get started. The only thing was that Sati didn't seem totally sure about it. He set down the crystal and smiled. "Are you sure you want to do this, Sati? It will take about an hour and at least a night on top of that to work her through it." he said, nodding at what he said.
He then stood from his seat and went to the operating table where he would do the experiment. In his hand was the Quartz Crystal. "I'm going to crush this for infusion if you are sure." he said, taking the hammer from the side table and readying it, pausing just in case she changed her mind. "Once the decision is made, there is no going back." he concluded.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:41 pm
'Okay..' Sati said, not sure she was really okay, especially with something that would inflict pain so soon after meeting her new daughter. What if she associated meeting Sati with that trauma?
'Yes? That's a great deal of time..it wouldn't be prudent to travel with her whilst she's in pain.' she looked at Amerald, wondering if he would suggest it or if she would have to.
'The decision is yours actually, I am willing to do it, but I won't move her whilst she goes through this. If we do this, we're here for the night...' she looked from the him to the crystal and back to Amerald again.
'So..I'll go get her then.'
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:58 pm
Amerald nodded. "You can stay here as long as you'd like." he stated, standing up from his once sitting position. He glanced at the crystal. This was going to be fascinating. He picked up the crystal and then walked over to the operating table.
"If you'd go get her, that would be perfect." he said, smiling. He then grabbed the little hammer and began to hammer away at the little crystal, keeping as many of the shards as he could possibly could within the area as to not lose any pieces. He then awaited the return of the girl and Sati to his basement.
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:38 am
'..I didn't bring my PJs.' Sati called, grinning as she left the basement, padding up the stairs and into the hallway. She moved along the hallway of his house, and then up the stairs, looking around her as she went, listening as well to see if she could hear the girls as she went.
Once on the landing she called out, not sure which room they were in, and not wishing to be rude and opening doors she shouldn't.
'Hello? Talika?' she paused, then figured it might be better to try for Amerald's daughters.
'Amelia, Annabelle? I need to take Talika downstairs..'
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:45 am
Amerald smirked as the woman went up the stairs to find her daughter. He was quite pleased with the days events thus far. She was proving to be quite the mother already. He had initially taken her DNA because her looks were so different, so extraordinary that he couldn't pass up the chance, but in the end, it seemed as though her personality was that of a very kind, loving woman who gave all she had. Amerald was quite pleased with that.
~~~
Suddenly, opening the door, Amelia popped her head out. "Oh, Talika, your mother needs you." she called back into the room, smiling. Within a matter of moments, Talika was outside with Sati once again. "Please take care of her." she said before shutting the door again.
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Back in the basement, Amerald was preparing the crystal and awaiting the return of Sati and Talika. He prepared the crystal and everything was perfect and ready to go. He just prayed that this would go over much better than it had before on previous hraapea. He hoped and pleaded just so that he could do this without causing too much pain.
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:56 am
'Of course..' she replied, holding her hand out to Talika. The little girl took it this time, and Sati hoisted her up into her arms, letting her settle onto her hip, nestling there as if she had been her child since birth, not just since she'd stepped into the shop a while ago.
'Oof..you're a big girl.' Sati smiled and Talika hugged her.
'Let's go back downstairs and see Amerald again okay? He has something for you.' she walked carefully down both sets of stairs again, one hand clutching Talika to herself, the other on the railings as she descended each one.
'Okay, here we are again.'
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:27 am
Amerald smiled as he saw the girls. "Talika, I have a question for you. Would you be willing to control the power of air? I know that is probably a bit weird, me asking you such a thing. But would you agree to go through with this procedure even if it hurt a little? You will get some great powers and be able to protect yourself. Doesn't that sound fun?" he asked. He knew that some of those concepts would never be able to be fully understood the concept he tried to explain to her. He just smiled and knelt down a bit to be on her level.
"Sati, would it be alright if you waited upstairs? Or would you rather watch? It's a bit...gruesome at times." he insisted. He didn't mind either way, but he hadn't done the procedure yet with the guardian in the room. That was just not what went on generally. He was happy that the woman was there however, but he just hoped that everything would be over in time and he could return Talika to her mother in a good condition.
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:01 pm
Talika had slid down from Sati when they reached the basement, looking around it, a hand curled into her hair, the green strands wrapped around wrist and twined in her fingers. She looked steadily at Amerald, who had been the first person she had seen and nodded solemnly, not speaking for a moment.
'Protect 'self?' she patted the hand not in her hair on her chest and then looked up at Sati, turning and touching her new mother on the arm.
'Air power protect my mother..' she looked at Amerald. Sati kneeled down next to Talika.
'I'm a big girl, you don't need to do it to protect me. And it will hurt, are you sure?' she said to the girl, before addressing Amerald's question with a frown, shaking her head as she looked at him.
'I'm not moving one inch whilst you do whatever it is you're going to do.' she would not leave Talika whilst she was going through a painful procedure, what would that say to the child? That pain and abandonment went hand in hand.
Talika untangled her hand, moving forward a step, and presented it to Amerald.
'Do.'
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:11 am
[[ Sorry about all of this. @___@ I just wanted to get this done haha. xD You can go through the process of how they took each thing. If this is okay? If not, I can just edit parts out that you aren't alright with...just let me know haha. ]]
Amerald smiled and stood up, walking over to Talika and taking her hand. He walked the girl over to his 'operating table' and picked her up, sitting her down onto it. "Alright, now this may hurt at first, but in the end, everything will be alright." he said, nodding, trying to reassure the girl that things were going to get better.
He took her hand, examining it before doing anything. He then walked to his little side table which contained the shattered pieces of the crystal as well as the things needed for the procedure. He put on his white medical gloves that he had gotten and grabbed the goggles and placed them on his face after taking his own glasses off.
He picked up the blade and looked it over as well, making sure there was no residue or anything that could potentially cause the child more pain. With that, he dipped it in the alcohol to sterilize it, bringing it back out and looking the girl in the eyes.
He nodded and began the procedure, cutting open the girls hand at the beginning of the palm to the middle of her hand, spreading the wound wide enough as to get the crystal shards in there. It was then that he began his work, picking up each individual crystal with a pair of tweezers, placing each piece into and under the skin. He hoped the girl wouldn't flinch too much.
Within the hour, the procedure was finished. He knew that she would probably be angry for all the pain, but the wound was now secure under some bandages and he was preparing himself for the worst. Maybe she would take it better than the rest had? He had a few thoughts on the workings of that, but he just hoped for the best, preparing for the worst.
He then turned to Sati saying, "It's over. The deed is done. Now lets get her upstairs onto the couch and we can watch her."
He grabbed the girl and carried her to the staircase, walking up each stair as carefully as he could. Finally, he reached the top, opening the door with his hand, moving the girl around to the best of his ability without dropping her. He then made his way into the living room and laid the girl down on the couch. "How do you feel, Talika?" he said, sitting down on the coffee table, looking at the girl.
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Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:44 am
Sati wasn't sure whether to sit or stand whilst the procedure was happening, and so settled for an agitated pacing, her eyes taking in the metallic glint of the blade that would in a moment be used. She tugged on her hair, wrapping a strand tightly around her fingers and then letting it go. Talika looked over at the woman she had not long met and pointed her other arm at her, the palm open. Sati strode over and gripped it tightly, causing the girl to wince a minute; but that would be nothing compared to what was to come.
Talika looked at Amerald, a straight gaze, her bottom lip shaking but she stuffed it under her top to still it. She sniffed at the scent of the medical alcohol and as the knife decended towards her hand she almost pulled it away, the fingers curling. She steadied, trying to keep the palm upright as the edge sliced into the soft flesh of her upturned hand, bright blood welling and spreading across her hand. She cried out in shock and pain, and then was silent, the only clue to the continued pain she was feeling were the hot tears that spilled over and ran down her flushed cheeks.
Sati was stony face and pale at this point, looking more at Talika's face than the hand that Amerald was operating on as she didn't want to get queasy. The whole process seemed to be both longer and quicker than she had expected, and eventually Talika's hand was under several layers of white gauze.
Sati followed Amerald upstairs, looking quietly at his back as moved, biting down anger and recriminations. She'd agreed to this after all, and so had Talika..but had the girl really understood what she'd volunteered to have done? She was days old after all - everything was so surreal that Sati felt like she was in a daze, and she only snapped out of it when Amerald addressed Talika. She moved to the end of the couch, taking a seat besides the girls bare feet.
'Hurt.' the girl replied, wiping a hand hard across a cheek, rubbing at the drying tears. Sati gently squeezed the big toe on the girl's left foot, and it twitched. The woman felt an overpowering sense of guilt that Talika was in pain, and she wondered if Amerald felt the same, or if it was just an extension of his experiments. She looked up at him as Talika moved on the couch and wriggled into Sati's side, careful of the hand for even jarring the fingertips caused the whole of it throb even more painfully.
'Do you have anything for the pain she can have?'
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