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 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:16 am
Tayne smiled slightly as she looked down at her lanturn. "Thank you..." She peered up at the swinging Arian once more. "Your mummy has a nice one too. It matches your unique coloring"
She then gazed at Kaze again. Even though they just met, she felt as though she could connect with her, but then again it was only a feeling...
"A cookie? Sure... I guess... I mean if you really don't mind..."
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:55 am
Arian grinned at Tayne "Mummy doesn't mind - she gives cookies to everyone!" The unicorn boy frowned slightly in thought then added "Well not Uncle Kori's friend who's a boy since he's creepy and not Uncle Kori either because Mummy says he doesn't like cookies." Arian ignored the embarassed look on Kaze's face and continued "Personally I think it's cause he's a meanie though."
"Arian!" Kaze's voice wasn't sharp, but it caused the unicorn boy to flush slightly and duck his head slightly, especially when he caught the disappointment in her eyes. "You know it's not nice to speak badly of others" she rebuked mildly
Arian gave Kaze a slightly rebellious look, before mumbling a downcast appology. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that" he muttered quietly. Even though it's true! he added silently to himself
Kaze sighed slightly and gave Tayne a rueful smile "Please forgive Arian, our housemate is not much of a people person and can be.. A bit abrupt sometimes." She extended the bag of cookies to Tayne "And of course I don't mind if you have a cookie - help yourself."
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:37 am
Hesitantly she reached into the bag that Kaze had offered and pulled out one of the edible disks. She looked at it for a few moments, then took a small bite.
"Its good, thank you," she stated after she swallowed. She then took another bite, this one a bit larger then the first. She had already eaten the breakfast that her current hosts had been kind enough to provide.
But there was always room for a cookie.
"You come around here often?" she asked with a small smile, wondering slightly if they's be like the others, just talk once then never talk again.
She didn't really mind though. It happened so much that she was used to it.
Still, it was nice to be able to talk to someone, no matter how weird it felt at first.
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:26 pm
"I'm glad you liked it Tayne" Kaze said with a smile in response to the girl's compliment on her cookies. "I bake them myself.. And yes I do come here fairly often, although Arian comes here more."
Arian nodded enthusiastically "We don't live too far from here - well the place really belongs to Uncle Kori but he lets us live with him." He added "And I like it here. I've met other people like me here, although they were smaller.
Having managed to stop swinging he held out his hand for a cookie.
Laughing Kaze gave him one as she asked Tayne with a smile "And how about you Tayne - do you come here often?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:42 pm
"This is actually my first time... of what I can remember anyway" she said somewhat meekly, then finished off her cookie. She then gazed at Arian.
"Others like you? What do you mean by that?" She was confused by the boy's wording
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:34 am
Arian blinked "Other spirits like me - but smaller than me" he told Tayne. "There was a green one called Aikori and a yellow one whose name I can't remember," he frowned. "I wanted to stay longer and talk to them, but I had to get back though I didn't want to."
Kaze blinked herself and looked at Arian curiously "Aikori? As in Enikil's child?" She asked the unicorn boy curiously. She'd been planning to take Arian with her the next time she saw Enikil and introduce him to both Aikori and Enikil - she hadn't realised they'd already met.
She frowned to herself slightly Although it might not have been the same Aikori, Arian could have met someone else called Aikori....
Arian shrugged "I don't think.." He frowned "Wait! I think he said something about an Enikil... And a Cloud" he added. "I can't remember though." He looked back at Tayne "I met a spirit who was my size once too, but it wasn't here it was at the lantern shop where Mummy bought my lantern."
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:40 am
Tayne tilted her head at the unicorn's words.
A spirit?
"A lantern shop, eh? I think I saw your mom there the last time I visited. You weren't there though... or at least of what I can remember..." she withdrawed her voice as she herself drew in to think for a few moments. She then looked at Arian again.
"What do you mean, spirit?" she finally had courage to ask, hoping he didn't mind.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:29 pm
Kaze blinked at Tayne "Did you?" Her voice sounded curious, the half sprite not remembering meeting the other girl before today. "I'm sorry" she sounded appologetic. "It's just I didn't recall meeting you before today."
Arian looked at Tayne "Umm I mean spirits like me." He didn't really know how to explain it. "Like when I was stuck in there" he pointed at the lantern that Kaze had placed carefully down and slightly out of the way so she could push him on the swing. "It was boring in there though - there's nothing to see.. Not like out here."
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:41 pm
"I really wasn't trying to be found..." she said. "This is my first time speaking to someone that I haven't really met before... so then I just observed... You spoke to a small girl in a kimono... I think..." she said, wondering if maybe she had the wrong person.
"Well, it seems like it would be rather boring in a lantern, but then again, when you're a lantern people smile at your beauty and give you a home as soon as they see you. You wouldn't have to worry about hunger or thirst, or anything like that..." She stopped and thought about what she was saying.
"Wait one moment... you came from what?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:23 pm
Kaze nodded "I think I remember. I offered her a cookie." Actually Kaze pretty much offered everyone cookies - it seemd to be just something the blue haired woman did - a part of her nature mayhaps. She smiled ruefully "I was worried I'd met you before and had been rude to you somehow."
Arian tried to roll his eyes at Kaze's last sentence - Mummy was never rude.. She was always proper... Even to Uncle Kori... She made him be proper too, even though personally the unicorn boy didn't know why he had to be proper to meanies like Uncle Kori.
Listening to Tayne speak he interrupted "But it's boring in there - there's nothing to see. You can hear things but not see them and there's nothing to do." Being in the lantern seemed a somewhat touchy subject to him.
At Tayne's second question he pointed to his lantern again wondering why she sounded so surprised. "From there."
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:39 pm
He came from a lantern? That just couldn't be right...
Tayne admitted the boy was small...ish, but still...
How could he fit inside a tiny lantern? It was impossible. Impractical.
But then, Arain seemed young. Perhaps it was one of those fazes that children went through. That made sence to the violet-haired girl, seeing as she had no childhood, so it was possible that she missed out having a 'pretend' origin. Still, she didn't want to ruin his day.
"Oh, that's what I thought you said..." she said with a meek smile.
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:27 pm
Kaze laughed at the puzzled look on Tayne's face "Actually I was sleeping when it happened so the first person he met was Kori" the smile faded - waking up to find an irate Kori trying to throw out Arian wasn't exactly one of the best things that had ever happened to her...
And she had been serious in what she'd told Arian that night - she would have left if Kori had thrown him out. Though for some reason he hadn't and although Kaze wasn't arguing she wasn't sure why Kori had done something so out of character as to let Arian stay either - not that she was going to ask him though.
Arian sneaked another cookie out of the bag Kaze was holding while she was distracted. While Mummy was distracted was always one of the best times to do it as she always stopped him eating too many cookies.
Goal accomplished he muttered something that sounded suspiciously like "Uncle Kori is mean" before smiling at Tayne again "So do you live near here too?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:45 am
Tayne watched Arian with rapt attention as he sucsesfully removed the cookie, then looked back at Kaze and smiled.
She didn't want to give Arian away.
"Well if that's so I can imagine that Kori's reaction wasn't a pleasant one... Of what part of his personality I know of." she stated, reffering to Arians multiple 'meanie' comments on his uncle.
"Sort of..." she said, replying to Arian's question. She looked around. Just how far away was her home from here? She never really paid any attention to it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:04 am
Kaze smiled ruefully "Ah Kori is well Kori" she said. "We've kind of known each other for a while and he was nice enough to give me a place to stay when I needed one, but he's not really a people person - he never has been... But he really isn't all that bad."
Arian looked interested as Kaze told Tayne about Kori until he realised that she wasn't going to say anything else, even though he'd been trying to find out how Mummy knew someone as mean as Uncle Kori - especially since she wasn't mean like he was. Besides she was wrong about him not being bad - why else was he so mean.
Tilting his head slightly as Tayne answered his question he said impulsively "Well maybe you can come and visit us sometime - Mummy and me are really close to here and you could have more of Mummy's cookies." He looked hopefully at Tayne. "That is if you want to."
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:21 am
"I would enjoy that, that is, if your Mummy and Uncle Kori don't mind" she said happily.
People weren't so bad. Maybe she should try talking to people more often.
But she didn't expect a miricle.
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