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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:57 pm
"Ah. Well that's always fun." Kii also avoided mentioning that she had an ongoing war with microwaves.
Shavira hesitated, then reached out a finger to poke Sadako. "Dork? Are you a dork?" She was curious how this friend was talking. Why didn't Shavi's squishy friends talk? Maybe they were shy. She'd ask them later.
A bit surprised at Sadako's accusations...Shavi...well, laughed. "Silly! Shavi did not know. But why Miss Lenore only Sadako's? Shavi is everybody's!" She stretched out her arms to prove her point.
Kii almost smacked her forehead, trying hard not to laugh. But instead, she forced herself to keep still.
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:42 am
"I like making things blow up. I blew up a potato in the oven the other day - I didn't mean to, though. No one told me you're supposed to stab 'em first before you throw them in." Len said, looking pleased with the accidental discovery.
Sadako hesitated, unsure how to react.
"Sadako is not a dork. Sadako is Len's doll. Len doesn't need other friends - she has Sadako."
Plunking down on the grass, she looked up at Len, a little lost.
"Right?"
"Oh, 'Dako. Stop being a dweeb."
Picking up the doll and hugging her close, Len looked at Shavi appreciatively.
"She didn't mean it. She just gets jealous."
Sadako wriggled a little in Len's arms, looking displeased.
"Not jealous. Other friends leave Len - Sadako stays. Snake-Girl will forget Len, just like others. But Sadako won't!" She said, clinging to the girl's arm defensively.
It was Len's turn to look displeased.
"Hush, you."
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:38 pm
Nodding, "I had the same problem with an egg once..." Kii's ears flapped and watched the doll that Lenore had picked up. Interesting.
Shavira cocked her head to the side, staring at Sadako. Looking back and forth from Lenore and the doll, Shavira gave half-hearted smile. "Jeal-ous..." She inched forward on her knees to get closer and reach up and pet Sadako on the head. "Shavi is Snake-Girl? Well, Shavi-snake-girl dun' forget nobody. 'Specially not Shavi-snake-girl friends! 'Sides!" She stated, as if it was pretty obvious. "To forget Miss Lenore would be too hard." She added quickly: " Jus' like Sadako!" Awkwardly, Shavira petted Len's knee, trying to offer some form of comfort.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:02 pm
Totally caught off guard, Sadako gave an "umph" and let Shavi pet her.
"...Fine. Snake-Girl can be friends with Len. But Sadako will be angry if Sna-... if Shavi forgets!" The doll said, shaking a little fingerless fist before jumping up and scuttling away again.
Lenore clapped a hand to her forehead, rolling her eyes.
"I ask for a puppy, and I get a psychopathic doll of evil. Go figure." She said, eyeing Slinky with something like envy.
"A piece of advice - don't play with things that say they're possessed."
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:33 pm
Shavira grinned after the doll ran off again. "Sadako can be friends with Shavi too!" She called out after the possesed toy. "Shavi never forgets! Like Elephants!" She attempted to emphasize her point by tugging her ear and making a trunk with her arm at the same time, but thought she looked too silly. The snakes were all staring at her and where the doll had disappeared, quite confused.
Shavi turned back to Lenore and gave her a grin just as big. "But Shavi wishes Slinky can talk loud! Shavi and Slinky would have great talks." She hugged her doll closer to herself. "And Shavi does not think she will find...poss...poss.ess.ed...anything! If Shavi does, Shavi will think of Miss Lenore's words." She nodded, wondering what other dolls would say if they could say anything.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:34 pm
Lenore smiled, quick and sincere.
"Well...maybe not all of them are as crazy as 'Dako. I bet Slinky would have a nice ghost - Sadako's just....er. Special." She said, shaking her head again slightly. Sighing slightly, Len tilted her head to one side as she regarded the little girl.
"You're a sweet kid, Shavi." She said, looking at the girl with an almost admiring expression.
"Lenore! There you are!"
"AWK!"
Lenore gave a distinctly bird-like squawk as she jumped up and tried to flee. A very tall woman who looked as though she was stitched together had snuck into the room, holding an overly frilly pink dress in one hand.
"Doll! You stay away! Don't come any-YEEEEEE!"
Sadako bolted out of the bush and latched onto Lenore's leg, looking panicked.
"Run! Run! Doll-woman wants to put Len in floofy things!"
"I'm running, I'm running!"
And run she did. Waving goodbye to Shavi and Kii, Lenore flapped her arms and got airborne.
"See you guys later! Sorry, gotta go, BYE!"
Flying over Doll's head, Lenore landed running outside the room and took off, flailing and screaming.
The woman called Doll waved pleasantly at Kii and Shavi before turning to follow Lenore.
"Lenore says she doesn't like pink, so I'm trying to get her into this dress. Crow likes pink. I like pink too, really. Maybe if Len wears it long enough, she won't say it burns her retinas like acid!" Doll said, looking very happy at the idea. She trotted off, humming pleasantly.
"Get it AWAAAAAAY!"
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:16 pm
The room's door creeked open as two heads peeped inside. The blonde boy looked down at the black furry head of his companion for this outing before pushing the wooden board on hinges until it slapped against the wall.
"Interesting," he muttered as hollow eye sockets scanned the area. It was a little stuffy, but helped melt the snow on his clothing, except it didn't stop the white ice tracks that could still be seen in the hallway. The smell of soil and leaves tickled him as he examined the mini jungle from the doorway until being pushed from behind. "Okay, okay.." he said while looking back at the large black animal who did the pushing.
Feral wine hued eyes looked back, glinting with a sly mist about them. It's tall ears, tipped with white, twitched before it decided to venture further in without the skeleton marked boy.
"Waaaaiiitttt!" he called before tromping over to the wolf. The large black creature paused, large body dwarfing that of other canids. "Look! A play...thing and it has a slide!" Osso skirted past his companion before making his way up the rope net and to the slide.
The black wolf gave a human like shrug before trotting over, plopping down near the steps as large skull rested on the warm grass.
((crappy-whole lot o' nothing post x_o;; ))
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:52 pm
There were, Gray mused, only two things she had learnt in her several millenia of existence. The first was to never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second, but only slightly less known was this: Never put a deer in a stroller.
She had spent some fifteen minutes trying to coax Odnako into the wheeled contraption, and had suffered everything from having her toe flattened beneath the plastic wheels to being gummed to death by an irate baby. Gray still wasn't sure what the policy on unleashed animals was (did she herself count, she wondered), but never having owned dogs, and therefore not having anything remotely leash-like in her possession, she had resorted to... dared she imagine the horrors... the Snugglie.
Of all the things one could have strapped to one's chest, babies did not rank high on the list. They were slightly above, say, wet salmon, but Gray figured the salmon didn't flop as much and on the whole probably smelled better.
Odnako huffed, brown cheeks puffing as she wiggled her legs, running in air from the suspended sling. Going someplace! Going somplace now FASTER! Going where?! Did she smell plants? What was that sound?!
"Point taken. No more sugar in the baby food." Gray frowned to herself, blinking in the green-tinted light of the Jungle Room. This didn't look much like the Library. But hey, look! Another weird kid! Maybe Odnako wouldn't beat this one up.
Gray started towards the boy, not seeming at all disturbed by his skeletal appearance, but she did stop short at the sight of the huge canine that accompanied him. Jackal? Wolf, Coyote? Gray almost bared her teeth, but didn't quite, turning the expression into a little silly smile. Just a pet, of course. Jackal would've eaten the bone-kid like toast by now if it wasn't.
"Hullo there," Gray called, waving at Osso, jostling Odnako in her sling. Odnako, for her part, stared wide-eyed at the strange surroundings... not quite caught up in the people yet.
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:59 pm
The boy stopped, wet shoe covered foot poised above a stair as one hand was gripped around a rail. his back being towards these new comers, blonde head was forced to have to turn to allow his to gaze at them. A mediu sized wave of shyness had already swept over the boy the first second the other's voice hit his eardrum, but when he noticed the flailing bundle attached to the women's chest, he did relax some.
'A new comer! Say hello, dear..." came an excited voice that fluttered through the Mishap's head. the black wolf had lifted her large head and had tipped it most of the way back to look at the boy before staring over towards the new ones.
'I am!' he snapped before turning around fully and offering a wave and a small,"hello.."
Black tail thumped the ground, the animal having dismissed the tone of the child's voice.
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:43 pm
"Plllt," Odnako answered, stopping her flailing long enough to peek at Osso from behind her hooves. He wasn't the crying one or the sharp-claws-hissing-angry one, either. He didn't look slimy or even furry; how strange. "Bah!" she said a little louder; he better not try anything funny, like the stupid fur-head Sabriel that she clobbered last time.
"Hullo," Gray repeated, then paused, looking puzzled. What came next? Something about shaking hands. But that was only what grown-ups did and somehow it didn't seem quite right.
Oh, she knew what to do! Diffuse the situation with a baby! Of course! "This is Odnako," she went one, unstrapping the Snugglie and pulling Odnako free from its powder-blue clutches. "And I'm Gray. We're new here." She grinned big, setting Odnako one the floor before she could begin squirming. Never mind the giant wolf nearby; it never even crossed Gray's mind that the furry one might think her little babe was a good snack.
Odnako seemed to think otherwise. Scissoring a fallen leaf between her hooves, the deer child chewed on it distractedly, watching the wolf with baleful eyes. Another black furry thing. Grr.
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:40 pm
Well, the lady sounded nice enough, and she had to be to have a Mishap...right? Osso contemplated this before coming down the steps of the play structure. he stood at the bottom, hand on the rail, before giving a semi shy smile and stating,"I'm Osso...and this is Nana," he pointed to the black wolf laying down near him.
The boy's hollow gaze shifted from the..odd looking woman to the deer like babe on the grass. Eating leaves? now that was odd he thought before putting his question in words outloud,"is that good?" he asked to really no one in particular as he tilted his head.
Nana looked from one person to the next as she listend to the woman talk and then Osso. The large creature took interest to the orange haired child and was already on her feet before stopping mid step. Wine hued eyes looked up and over to Gray, locking in a dead fast grip. Large tail plume swayed up over her back before the heavily french accented voice floated into the other adult's head,'pardon my grandsom for not giving..proper greetings..'
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:49 pm
Oh, how cute, he was shy. Gray giggled to herself for no reason at all, not seeming to mind his question, although she did glance down at Odnako. Were babies allowed to eat leaves? "Doubt she can do much harm with it. It's only a maple leaf, she could get into worse back at our room... like another bonsai... or pointsettias, those are the worst, that red draws them like moths to a candle. If moths ate candles." Gray looked puzzled again, trying to remember.
Odnako looked up at Osso, still gumming the leaf. Her eyes crossed for a moment, deep in thought, before she mimicked his expression, tilting her head to one side and gurgling around the mouthful of green. She didn't understand where his eyes were, and from what she understood, eyes were a necessary thing to have. Even Gray had one, when you pulled off the shiny round thing... but Gray also had a black spot for an eye. Maybe Osso just had two black spots for eyes. Curious and distracted from Nana's presence, she began toddling towards Osso, actually fairly mobile for an infant.
Gray wasn't so distracted, however. Feeling the wolf's gaze on her, she glanced over at Nana, trying to read the expression in the canine face. But she was only a lonely corvid, and reading others was seers' business, and she still couldn't imagine a threat coming from this... Nana, had Osso called her?
"Oh." Gray blinked in surprise, then chuckled. "That feels funny," she mused aloud, rubbing at one temple with her hand. She couldn't place the accent, either, but it pretty, and the lilted "r"s sounded particularly lovely. "No pardons, I prefer his way to the usual ceremonies people go through. Hand shakes and bows and preening and posturing, too much to remember." Gray paused, then giggled again, glancing between Osso and Nana. "The family resemblance... it is uncanny."
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:31 pm
The boy continued to look from Odnako to Gray, listening intently to the adult's words. "My momma's pet, Vasu, does stuff like that....but he never eats the plants, just..." he tried to remember the word his guardian used,"mangladed them?" Eh, it was close enough.
Osso glanced away from the monocle wearing woman to the smaller Mishap who was now apparently bustling over to him. He wasn't sure exactly what to do. babies didn't usually approach him because all the one's he'd met were just well, placed on the ground right in front of him. An unsure glance was directed to Nana, but he could already tell she'd be no help. once nana got talking there wasn't anything else on her mind.
Feral eyes blinked, a connection already made there was no need to continue in staring. The black canine made her way closer to the Gray woman, moving quite gracefully despite her larger-than-average-wolf size. A small 'boof' was given before the voice in Gray's head began laughing. 'You just happen to meet me on a...very bad day. I look human enough e'cept for one day each month...But yes, I agree now a days that the...'ceremonies' of welcome are quite unnecessary.'
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:57 pm
Odnako puffed out her cheeks, wiggling her puff of a tail and pawing the ground with a front hoof. Had she been a goat, Osso might have had to worry about her charging at him, but she seemed more interested in showing off than butting him in the shin. He might be bigger, but she was faster than her own mommy and she wasn't going to let him forget it! Besides, she thought maybe she didn't mind the silly no-eyes so much, but she wasn't going to trust him that quickly.
Interesting... what was that thing behind Osso? She had never seen a slide, after all, or a jungle gym at all for that matter. It was bright and colorful and large, maybe he was guarding it, a treasure or... or... or something extra special. Oh, the curiosity.
Gray actually purred at that, quite taken with the unusual canine. She was graceful and strange and there was something decidedly Old Worldian about her, even if she wasn't really, or so Gray assumed. "A good day is one without fur? Strange for it to be measured by days, though. Very strange." She hummed to herself, lost in thought.
"Oh. You are what they call a... a wife-wolf, isn't it?" That sounded right. Maybe. Were had been the name for man... which she most certainly was not... therefore, wife-wolf.
But she grinned anyway, wondering just how long she could keep rambling before Nana's eyes took on that particular glazed and politely confused expression that meant she was spouting too much nonsense too quickly. "Wolf did it too, if I remember, and I do. All sorts of whining and rolling on bellies and sniffing and groveling. Never understood it, but it beats a handshake. But then, a sharp stick in the eye beats a handshake, too."
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