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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:54 pm
Log Entry #001
Subject(s): 005, 016
It appears that my oh so wonderful superiors have decided to saddle me with another experiment to observe. They seem to think I don't have enough to do with dealing with 005 and her teenage life. I think I'm going to have a few words with them about this...
Subject: 016
Name: Gabriella
Gender: Female
Eye color: Hazel
Skin tone: Dark brown
Hair color: Dark brown/black
They had to give me another girl too didn't they? At least they could have given me a male to add a little variety, but oh no. Oh well. 016 seems to be a slightly fussy infant and does not yet sleep though the night. Her current caretaker certainly has her hands full. I think she's only counting down the days until she can leave the care of the female to the matrons in Nandien. Despite my displeasure at having to observe her, it may be interesting to see what kind of child she develops into. At least she's not the same as 005 personality-wise so far....
As far as 005 goes, she had a practice fight with one of the males of her peer-group. 001, I think it was. She never had a chance against him. It was amusing to watch actually. Maybe that will teach her to not pick fights with boys. Not much else to report. I doubt there will be anything too exciting until the new back of children, including 016, are brought among the other children. We shall see how that goes when we get there. Until then, signing off.
Log Entry End
Observer: Keetabirdy
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:04 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:52 pm
RP - being given to the city matrons
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:52 pm
Cookies! Tara_Nepion(NPC)=dark greenXenres=light blueGabriella=goldenrodIn the dining hall, several matron's rearranged the tables so there was a large open space in the middle of the room. A few stood on wooden ladders hanging fabric from the walls. One Matron supervised a group of children who were rather vigirously stirring some dough on one of the tables.A blue-clothed toddler wandered into the hall and stood at the entrance while sucking on a thumb and looking around with wide eyes. What was going on? His poor toddler brain couldn't figure it out, so he just stood there and watched as a dragonfly hovered around him.Gabriella wandered in not too long after the other toddler and looked around the room, momentarily transfixed by the flurry of activity. After she became acclimated to all the comotion, she took a few toddling steps over to where the children were stirring the dough. It looked like fun and she wanted to try it for herself.Xenres' mind finally shut down any thoughts trying to figure out what was going on. He caught sight of the dragonfly and started to chase it as it flew around the dining hall.One of the Matron's caught sight of the two toddlers and motioned one of the older girls to go bring them over. Quickly she seperated off two more spots of dough.
"Come on!" the girl said brightly taking Gabriella's hand and scooping up Xenres as he passed by her on his chase. "We're making cookies. Sometimes," she confided, "the Matron lets you taste the dough. It's so much fun!"Xenres squeaked as he was scooped up into someone's arms. He had been so close! He sniffled, preparing to cry, but the magic word cookie reached his ears. He sniffed once more and looked up at whoever had him. "'Oo'ie?" He asked. He knew cookie! He blinked at the "make" part tho. "Me thinked 'oo'ies just are..." he said, confused. His eyes continued to track the dragonfly even as he spoke.Gabriella followed the older girl to the table with the dough silently, her eyes looking at the bowls of dough with a certain calculation. She wanted some cookies and she was going to get some! Her dark hand reached up to the table top and tried to grab anything she could.Xenres eyed the spot of dough as he was carried towards the table. He reached out with one hand, pinched some dough off, and stuck it in his mouth to taste it. His face was a study as he slowly tasted it, finally swollowing with a small shudder and saying in a slow and hesitant voice, "'Ist no 'aste 'ike 'oo'ie..." Just goes to show that cookies just are, and were not "made" as said!The girl deposited Xenres into a waiting high chair and plopped a big hunk of dough in front of him, along with several cookie cutters. "Don't eat too much!"
A clatter rang out as several spoons reached Gabriella's hands and spilled onto the floor. Hurriedly the girl dropped to her knees and started to pick them up. "Hey! 982! Hurry and get another high chair!" The boy, an older teen made a face at the girl.
"Yeah, yeah... Don't be so bossy." the boy grumbled as he dissapeared to find a high chair for Gabriella.Xenres made a face as he was plopped into a high chair with a chunk of icky non-cookie dumped in front of him. He blinked as several odd objects clattered onto the table near the dough. He carefully picked one up and stared at it. How pretty. Was it edible? He tried to bite it. Nope. He shoved it away from himself with a "Bleh!" and gave it an odd look at arms length. So why did he have it? He looked at the girl in confusion. He couldn't eat the odd objects and the icky non-cookie didn't taste good, so what did they want him to do with these?Gabriella was delighted by the noise the clanging the spoons had made, and by their shiny appearance. She picked up one that had fallen at her feet while the older girl was picking up the others.
" 'Ooon!" she shrieked, excitedly, before smacking it against the ground repeatedly, a large grin on her face. It made such wonderful loud noises!Bang. Bang. Bang. The girl winced as Gabriella started knocking the spoons against the floor. Frustrated she nearly slammed the spoons down on the table. A silent reprimand from the Matron led to a deep supposedly calming breath. Finally the boy brought another high-chair and lifted Gabriella into it.
The girl put a hunk of dough and a cookie cutter in front of Gabriella, and turned to Xenres. "Here. You push the dough out.. and press the cutter into it." The girl demonstrated, cutting a star out of the cookie dough. She turned to repeat the same thing for Gabriella, hoping the distraction would get the girl to drop the spoons. Gabriella squirmed and fussed a bit as she was lifted into the highchair. She couldn't make noise on the floor anymore! That was until she was presented with dough and a cookie cutter....
She dropped the spoon in her hand, letting it hit the floor below with a clang. She stared at the shiny piece of metal and the cookie dough for a minute, watching as the older girl demonstrated how they were used. Having seen Xenres put some dough in his mouth, she took some and ate it too. While it didn't taste like cookie, it was ok, and even better, it was squishy!
Experimentally, Gabriella picked up the cookie cutter as well, and tried banging it on the high chair tray. It made noise too! She grinned and kicked her legs excitedly, alternating between squishing the dough in her hands and banging the cookie cutter. Xenres winced at the constant banging by the other toddler. He eyed the cookie cutter in one hand and poked at the dough with the other. Flatten? He put the cutter down, open his hands, and started slapping the dough down into a flatter shape. Smack. Smack. Smack. Smack. His arms started to get tired and he eyed the dough. It seemed flat enough... He picked up a cutter and brought it down on the dough. His eyes went wide when he picked the cutter back up. Where'd the dough go? He looked at the cutter and blinked. How'd it get there? Would it go away if he brought it down on the dough again? He started banging the cutter against the table, using the dough as a silencer. Dough went flying as he brought it down randomly and quickly raised it. Xenres grinned. This was fun!Splatters of dough went flying everywhere. About to tell the two off the girl reconsidered. At least they were having fun and couldn't make too bad of a mess. She just wouldn't give them more dough. The girl nodded and went back to making her own cookies.Eventually Xenres got tired of losing dough and eyed the cutter again. Still dough in there. He shook it some, then poked his finger at it. The dough moved. He pulled the dough out, looked around, then gathered all the dough he could reach into a pile in front of him. It went together nicely. He pushed and shoved the dough together until it became a single mass. He then pulled at part of it, forcing it to grow an arm. He giggled with glee and started pushing and pulling the dough into all sorts of shapes.In her excitement and banging, Gabriella eventually lost her grip on the cookie cutter and it fell to the ground with a clatter. She looked over the side of her tray and reached for it helplessly, starting to fuss a bit. She wanted her noisemaker back!A clatter and the girl spun around, an expression of dismay on her face. "Oh, no no no no. No!" Irritated the girl scooped up the cookie cutter and placed it onto the highchair's tray. "Now don't go throwing it around! Next time I won't put it back!" Huffing she turned back to the table. Gabriella frowned at the girl's harsh tone. She didn't understand all of the words she said, but she knew when someone was angry. What had she done to deserve to be scolded? She had only dropped her toy, and not even on purpose. Sniffling a little, she picked up the cookie cutter once it was on the tray and hugged it to herself, not noticing or caring that it was getting her jumper dirty with dough in the process.
"Mine..." she said firmly as the girl walked away. Now that she had it back, no one else was going to get it. Xenres looked at the other toddler out of the corner of his eye as he continued to play with the dough.The girl merely sneered at the dough as she heard the toddler crow, "Mine!" Reaching across the table she snagged a roller and began to pound the dough out.Xenres was having oh-so-much fun with the dough. He had begun making little shapes out of parts of the dough and setting them to the side...to be cont...
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:10 am
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:52 pm
A bird and class - Part 1 Birds were singing in the warm sunshine while an older Matron stood waiting for all the toddlers. It was time for their first class.Gabriella wander out towards the matron, looking around curiously for the birds. What was making all that noise? She located the source of the sound in a nearby tree and pointed at it with a pudgy finger, while pulling on the matron's skirt with the other.
"Wha' tha'?""Tha's birdies, dearies. I don know the name of it. Are you ready for class love?" The older woman bend down stiffly and smiled at the toddler."Bir-di" she repeated, trying out the word. She grinned after she said it, and nodded at the women's question. Gabriella was always ready to try something new.
After a moment though, her face took on the exageratedly thoughtful expression of a toddler, before she looked back at the matron. "Cas fun?"Xenres toddled down the path towards the tower on his own. He fell a few times, but always got back up. He finally grinned upon seeing an older matron and wandered over. He blinked at the sight of another toddler, then reached up to tug on the matron's skirt. "Class?" he asked in a toddler's accent. His matron said class would be fun, but she never did say what a class was..."Class will be very fun. We've only had one child so far who refused to return, " the matron mused to herself. Another toddler came up and tugged on her skirt.
"Class?" the toddler asked.
"Yes, dear. You meet here for class."Gabriella waves at Xenres before nodding at the teacher. "Me like fun!" she said grining, before wandering off a little ways, where she saw a few flowers poking up out of the dirt.
"Pretty," she said matter-of-factly to no one in particular, pulling up what she could with her little hands.That wasn't excactly what Xenres was asking about, but he sighed and gave up to instead suck on one thumb as he waited for the matron to take them to class. He was distracted when the other toddler wandered some to look at some flowers. He wandered over to her and pulled his thumb out of his mouth as he watched her. "Whatcha 'ooing?" he asked, wondering what anyone would want with flowers."Pretty!" she stated again, practically shoving the flowers in Xenres' face, as if that explained all. She grinned at him, wondering if he would like a flower.
"Want?" she asked, seperating a few from her bunch and offering them to him.Xenres blinked and jerked back a little as the other toddler pretty much shoved the flowers in his face and wobbled some before falling on his tush. He blinked up at her before reaching a hand up. He wasn't thrilled with the flowers, but it wouldn't be nice to refuse. Besides, his matron might like them...Gabriella handed him the flowers, happy that he had accepted them, before offering him her free hand. "Up?" she asked, wondering if he needed help."Up," Xenres agreed, setting his feet just right before reaching his other hand up to grasp her's and pulling. He hoped her pull was enough greater than his weight to bring him to his feet. Gabriella stood firm, digging her heels in to balance herself as she pulled Xenres to him feet. Once he was steady, she released her hand from his and had her attention immediately taken by a passing bird, in flight. She pointed and looked from the bird to Xenres, wanting to share her new knowledge about what that thing was.
"Bir-di" she said excitedly, hoping Xenres would know what she was pointing at, so that he could learn it too.Xenres wobbled a little, but quickly stabilized before the other toddler let go of his hand. He followed the direction of her pointing, and his face lit up as he grinned. He was much more interested in the bird than the flowers. "Bir-di!" he repeated after her. He knew the shape, now he knew the name!
He then turned back to her, suddenly thinking that neither of them knew the other's name. He brought out his tags and showed them to her. "Me Xenres." he said simply. His matron had said something about previous toddlers doing this, and figured it was a ritual among toddlers when they told each other their names. He patiently waited for her to click her tags against his and give her name.Gabriella looked at Xenres' tags in confusion. Why was he showing them to her? It's not like she could understand the grown up squiggles that were on there. "Gabby" she said in response, pointing to herself. She couldn't say her full name properly yet, so her matron had been encouraging her to call herself Gabby.Xenres blushed slightly when Gabby didn't show her tags, and explained why his was out. "Matron said that we suppose to show each other our tags and touch them together when we say our names..." he said hesitantly, pretending to hit their tags together. All right, his matron didn't straight out say that, but that's what she meant, right?Gabby shrugged. Her matron hadn't told her that....but maybe she had forgotton? The toddler dug in her pockets for her ID tag, before touching it to Xenres'. She didn't understand it, but there were a lot of things she didn't understand yet.Xenres tapped his tags against Gabby's before he put his away again. He looked around, then asked Gabby, "Now what?" He was bored, and the matron wasn't taking them to class. He looked around for the dragonfly that normally followed him, but it was oddly out of sight right now.Gabby shrugged and looked towards the matron. "Ask her?" she suggested, before toddling over towards the woman.Xenres nodded at Gabby's suggestion and toddled with her over to the matron. He tugged on her skirt once more, and waited until she looked at him before asking in a hopeful voice, "Class now?"The matron watched the two toddlers fondly. "Now dears, excited for class? I don't blame you!" She kneeled in front of the two. "I suppose one of the matron's will bring over the the other two since it seems they're late. Now, 016 and 018, each of you grab a hand dears." The older woman held out a wrinkly hand to each of them.Gabby smiled and took the matron's hand, wondering where exactly they were going to go. She hoped it was some place she had never seen before. That would be exciting!Xenres took the other hand, and was about to put the thumb of his free hand into his mouth when he remembered he was still holding some flowers. He looked over himself before placing the stems into a pocket, allowing the petals to hang out. He grinned up at the matron, then started to suck on his now free thumb.The Matron shook her head at the toddlers and simply smiled. "Allright! Onward and outward." Slowly she started to, almost shuffle, towards the tower. She tried to keep her steps short so not to trip up the toddlers. After a fair bit of time, the trio reached the ground floor of the towers. A door slid open for them, as the stepped out of the sun and into the realatively dim interior. The first classroom was where the two were dropped off.
A circle of colored numbers were in place in the middle of the room. "016, please sit on the blue circle, and 018 on the yellow one." the teacher instructed quietly. This time he was perpared with pictures of each toddler along with their numbers.
The Matron bent down and kissed the toddlers. "I'll see you after class dears!"Gabby made a little face as the matron kissed her, and looked over at the teacher. Blue circle? She had to think about that one. Her matron had been practicing her colors with her, but she still wasn't very good... She knew which one was the yellow one....but the blue one? Thinking for a moment, she went and sat down on a red circle, hoping she was right.Xenres squirmed some as the matron kissed him, but stood mostly still. His eyes lit up at the teacher's instructions.. Yellow? He could do that! Yellow and blue were fun fun. He wandered over to the yellow circle and plopped down, noticing that Gabby had not sat on the blue circle. He just wasn't quite sure which one she was on... "What color Gabby on?" He asked the teacher, wanting to know the name of the color.The teacher smiled slightly. "No, 016...That is the color red. Can you say it with me? Red." He pointed at the blue circle, which had a number two on it. "That is the blue circle. Can you sit on the blue circle?" Perhaps next time he would try different shapes.Gabby looked at the color below her. He was right! She had mixed them up again. "I sorry..." she said, before repeating "red" after the teacher. Then she got up and sat on the blue circle. Xenres mouthed "red" to himself, staring at the color. So that was red. He put the two together in his mind and nodded. He looked at the teacher, waiting for the next step."That's allright. We all make mistakes at times. Even me." The teacher sat down with them on the floor, sitting on the green color. "Now 018, perhaps you can tell me what else is red in this room. 016, can you find the yellow colors?" There were brightly colored objects all around the room.Xenres nodded and looked around the room. He raised one arm and pointed to each red object. "That." Pointed to something else. "And that." Another point. "And that." He didn't know what most of the objects were called, but he knew they were red. He knew his names, colors, and numbers. He just didn't have anything to match them up to..."That is an apple, and a block, and a cup." He said, as Xenres pointed out each object. "Very good."Xenres mouthed each word to himself. Apple, block, cup. Now those words had pictures, meanings, inside his head. He looked at the teacher again. Now what?Gabby looked around the room. Yellow wasn't too hard. She pointed to a ball, a chair and a plushie that were yellow and smiled back at the teacher."Excellent!" the teacher exclaimed. "Now, do either of you know your numbers yet? Can you tell me what number is on your circles?"Gabriella blinked and moved so that she could look underneath where her tush was. She studied the symbols for a moment before shaking her head and looking at the teacher, hoping he would say what they were.Xenres shifted to look at the number he was sitting on. Well... Yessss he knew it, and noooo, he didn't. He knew how to say his numbers, and he knew what the numbers looked like in order, but he never figured out which number word went to which number symbol. He looked up at the teacher and blinked before saying a number word at random. "Seven?""That's not quite right... It's number 9. But very close." The teacher smiled at the children. "That gives us a good starting spot today. We'll learn our numbers." The teacher got up and went to the low blackboard on one side of the room and quickly wrote out the numbers, one through ten. "Now, count with me. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." He pointed to each number as he counted. "Now try it alone," he suggested quietly.Xenres peered at the number beneath him. That was nine? ... Ok. He twisted to look at the blackboard. So he learned his numbers in order? Why didn't he connect the words and symbols already then? He sighed softly then quickly rattled out the number words - in order - as he imprinted word and symbol together in his mind.Gabriella followed the teacher's hand as he pointed to each of the numbers and named them in turn. How was she going to remember all of that? She waited while Xenres said his numbers in order, but she couldn't remember them. She got a sour look on her face and plopped back down on the ground, crossing her arms. It wasn't fair!Xenres blinked as he caught Gabby crossing her arms together in what seemed to be a pout. Didn't her matron teach Gabby her numbers? He brought a hand up and started to suck on a thumb as he stared at her with wide eyes.The teacher pointed to each of the numbers again, saying them slowly for the girl. Xenres watched the teacher as he said the numbers again for GabbyGabby looked up from her pout and tried to follow the teacher as he explained the numbers again, and then tried saying them herself. "One....two....three...six...." No, that wasn't right! She sighed in frustration, looking at the board, trying to make sense of the figures.
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:12 am
A Bird and Class - Part 2 A Matron knocked on the door to the toddler classroom, then opened the door, leading in a small male toddler. His thumb was in his mouth and he looked around in astonishment.
The Matron left him near the other toddlers, then spoke softly with the teacher for a few moments before leaving. Which caused the little boy to burst into tears.
Poor guy, he'd been shuffled about all day. They'd apparently messed up his paperwork and forgot to send him to the dorms earlier and realized their mistake today. Then he was taken over there, only for the Matron to realize that this was the first day of class, so he had to walk all the way back to the tower. Such a long walk for little feet. And now, she'd left him here.Xenres twisted in place to look at the door when it opened. Another toddler? He winced as the toddler started to cry and started to get up. No. No. He was suppose to sit here, so he would. But he really did want to go see about the new toddler...Gabriella's frustration disapated slightly as her attention turned to the entrance of a new toddler. She hadn't seen him around before, and wondered who he was. She looked from him to the teacher and pointed.
"Who dat?"The teacher nodded as the Matron spoke to him, then turned to his class as she left. But before he could say anything, the newest toddler burst into tears. The man sighed, debating his retirement yet again.
"That, 016, is 026. He's a new classmate of yours." The man answered, to put off having to do something to cheer up Aiko. But the boy's tears kept coming and the teacher had to think of... something.
He found a ball in one of the cubbyholes up out of the todders' reach and placed it in the boy's lap. Which stopped Aiko's crying. There was something in his lap all of a sudden.
While 026 was examining the foreign object, the man looked back at Gabriella. "That was close. Can you try once more?" Gabriella, watched the teacher and 026 intently, while attempts were made to calm the new toddler. After a moment, the teacher was successful in his attempts, by placing a ball in the crying child's lap. She wanted a ball too...how come she couldn't hold one?
Her thoughts about the ball were interupted by the teacher asking her to try the numbers again. She sighed and looked at the board again. Could she do it this time?
"One..." she started carefully. "Two...Fwee...." She paused and studied the symbols. This is where she had gotten stuck last time. "Four?" she asked tenatively.
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