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 Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:19 pm
It was the earperk that really made him sure of it, but the how and why were still a mystery - one he realized he would never be able to figure out as long as she was like this. "Sibyl. Sweetie. You know I can't understand when you go all cheetycheetysqueakasqueaka like that, right?" She just kept trying to communicated, but he was getting nothing. And yet, despite not understanding her, the way she flew up into his lap again made him tug at her wings softly. "I wonder if you're enjoying flying. It's fun, huh? My favorite thing to do, in fact." Somehow, without realizing it, he'd answered her question.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:37 pm
He called her sweetie~! Sibyl squeaked and smiled again, hugging her compass and making herself comfortable where she was. He couldn't understand her? For real for real? Sigh. But she had questions! And stories! Oh boil did she have stories. So much had happened in the span of a few hours it felt like they'd been on that island for weeks! "But I don't know how else to--" He tugged her wing and she squeaked with surprise. Gabby's question had her looking up and blinking, the coloration and shape of her eyes giving them that permanent wide-eyed expression she usually had as a ghoul anyway, just with a lack of color to her face and eyes. "Flying is fun! But it's really hard." Oh, wait. He couldn't understand her. But he liked to fly! She wanted to fly again! Instead Sibyl just nodded her head and gave her wings a flap, though it looked kind of awkward when she did it. It wasn't something the ghoul was used to. "Oh oh! Teach me to fly! Pleeeeeeeeease! You like it so much teach me, teach me!" She bounced up and down with excitement, flapping her little wings and tipping her head back to watch the boil. Would he take her flying?! She wanted to go flying!
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:42 pm
The excitement in her every action told him that her answer was yes, she liked it. He chuckled and let her hover, slowly getting up to his feet and stretching his own wings out. "How high can those little wings of yours get you? I'd fly with you, but somehow I don't know if you'd be able to catch up." Was that a smug smirk on his face? Why yes, it was.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:49 pm
Ah! He wasn't holding her anymore! Sibyl squeaked and bobbed in the air, clutching her compass tightly. It was awkward to hold, and she was worried she'd drop it if she flew too high. She was able to do this earlier but only because she'd been flying since she'd become a minipet, but now she'd stopped and settled and it...well..it was weird. His question was met with a determined little growl from the minipet, one that had her flapping her wings hard and desperately trying to lift into the air more. Hnnnng! Too hard! She gave up and flopped on the ground, panting for breath and holding the compass up in her little paws. "Hold this please...but keep it safe and give it back pleeeeeease. It's mine I earned it and I wanna keeps it!" She eyed Gabby seriously, because a shining grumpkin is the most serious creature in all the world. She waited for him to take the compass before she jumped a few times, flapping her wings as she did. It took a few attempts but eventually she was in the air again, flailing her stubby little arms while lifting herself into the air again. Wait! He'd posed a challenge! "Uh uh! I bet I can fly WAY higher than you!" She flailed more as if this would help her gain altitude. It did nothing but make her wobbly in the air.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:58 pm
Was she actually handing him the little compass, now? He took it, very slow and hesitantly, in case she changed her mind. As soon as he had it safe in his closed hand, she tried to flutter up as much as she could. It was so precious, it made his heart hurt. "That's cute." He muttered, tinged with sarcasm because Gabby is truly terrible. "But when I say flying, I kind of mean actual flying." His wings slowly stretched out behind him, shook, and then lifted. In one solid motion he lifted himself up off the ground, and his wings flapped with powerful thrusts, lifting him up, and up, and up- "Hey, Sibyl!" He yelled down from the sky. "Think you can make it up to me?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:02 am
Actual flying? How was this not actual flying?! She was exhausted just from this! When Gabriel took flight and went hiiiiigh, high up in the sky, the tiny minipet just watched with amazement. He could fly so high! That looked do easy but...could she..? "Um..." Could she do it? She flapped her little wings and slowly raised herself higher and higher bit by bit. "I can do it..!" Eventually...just a little bit...!
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:50 pm
When Sibyl actually tried to reach him, Gabby felt just the tiniest twinge of guilt for making her try so hard. So he lowered, slowly enough that she wouldn't notice, until her fervent attempts and his subtle descent finally left them on even footing. He reached out, palms extended upward to give her somewhere to land. "All right, all right. You can fly. Good job. Don't strain yourself." He muttered, smirking slyly.
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:04 pm
The hand was much appreciated. The ghoul flopped into the boil's waiting hands, panting for breath with teensy little squeaks. Flying was hard! How did he make it look so easy!? "I did a good job?" Sibyl bounced with happiness despite how tired she was from trying to fly. "I wanna fly more I wanna fly more!" She thought the praise would be enough to help her get her energy back, flapping her little wings as hard as she could. She managed to get a few feet higher before she seemed to give up. Ah! Ah! Ahhhh! Oh no! Ahhhhh! Falling falling GRAB SOMETHING GRAB SOMETHI--Gabriel's head would do. He would suddenly find he was getting a face full of shining grumpkin clinging to his face like an exhausted parasite with too much optimism and not enough muscle or flying experience.
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:06 pm
Landing on his hands was one thing, since he'd just offered the perch. Landing on his FACE was another thing entirely, and he flailed as he lost his sight, reaching out to peel her off and settle her on the back of his neck instead. "Will you please NOT blind me when I'm the only thing keeping us from splattering on the ground, Sibyl?" He warned, turning his head just enough to side-glance at her, before his wings thrust hard and he lifted back up higher into the air. "Do me a favor now, just hold on. You may have been able to reach me, but there's no way you can match my speed. You got a good hold on me yet?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 6:06 am
"Sorries.." Sibyl sagged dejectedly when she was scolded, looking like the saddest little grumpkin ever to exist. Okay maybe not the saddest considering how she'd been earlier, but it was still pretty up there on the list of sad grumpkins in history. As she was moved she tried to cling to Gabriel, something harder to hold onto than a weird compass thing. Hold on..? Hold on how? "But I don't have hands.." Sibyl flailed a little while she looked for a way to hold onto Gabby, her tiny little paws poking at his hood. Well...that might be a good idea! Like a bag or something! She fit herself in the collar of Gabriel's hood, her tiny little round body squeezing into it and making herself comfortable. Would this be okay? She didn't want to fall out. "Readies!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:18 pm
When she chirped at him, he assumed that meant she felt confident that she'd hold on. If she didn't, well... she had wings. She'd survive a slow fall. He tucked his collar in tighter, closing up the gap around her until she was snugly fit, and then he tensed. His lips quirked in a grin, which only faltered when he murmured a quick "Please don't throw up." And then he was gone. The wind whistled through his wings, as his body straightened out in the air and he flew forward at high speed. The muscles of his back ached with the strain of force, a familiar feeling that he loved. A few seconds after he started to shoot through the clouds, he checked back quickly, just to make sure she hadn't actually thrown up or fell out.
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Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:34 pm
Sibyl squeaked when the collar was tightened and she was squished against the back of Gabby's head, blinking and nuzzling her cheek against him. This was comfy! As long as he didn't go all ghosty transparenty or anything. She trusted him! He took off and Sibyl gasped, flailing her tiny paws and reaching to cling to Gabby even though she didn't really have the proper appendages for holding onto him. She had to get used to it, to adjust to this weird feeling of flying higher and higher, faster and faster. Sibyl had never flown before. Gabby looked back at her and huge white eyes stared back at him, turning down to the ground they had just left and giving a surprised gasp. Whoooooooa! They were so high up! "THIS IS SO COOL! Do you do this a lot? I wanna do this too! Do you think I can do it I bet I can do it I bet I can do it TEN TIMES BETTER THAN YOU! Ohohohoh can we go over there I wanna go over there oh no wait over there that looks so cool OHOHOHOH GO THROUGH THAT CLOUD IT LOOKS LIKE A FISH!" Her chirping and squeaking was so excited, but it was clear she was trying to speak despite everything.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:27 am
Gabby had no idea what all those excited chitters were saying, but what mattered was that she hadn't thrown up, and she even looked excited. He grinned back at her, and continued to surge forward, twirling and dipping at random intervals. She was so tiny and hidden, that it was almost easy to forget she was there when he lost himself in the moment. Almost, but not completely. The tiny p***k of warmth pressed against the back of his neck reminded him that Sibyl was there. "It feels so good to be up here." Gabby called out, his words all but snatched by the whistling wind. "I haven't gotten a chance to go flying since I got to Amity. I miss it."
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:09 pm
Whoa! Up, down, around, spinny spinny! This was so fun! It made Sibyl wished she could fly on her own, not because someone threw her or she became a minipet with wings. She wanted to fly. Oh well, she still loved to swim. That's what flying seemed to be anyway, swimming through the sky like one would in the water. She could just barely make out what he was saying over the whistling of the wind in her ears, but what she could hear was 'good' and 'miss'. This was happy stuff, right? She cheered, waving her little paw. This was so fun! The minipet nestled down comfortably in Gabby's hood, peering over the furry edge of the collar to look down at the land below them. Her eyes darted everywhere until they went through another cloud. She blinked. Could they feel it? Could she touch it? The ghoul leaned out from the safety of her hood nest to try and touch the cloud they were flying through, pouting and making a little noise of frustration when they were out of it and she had no cloud bits in her paw. Next time. Next time.
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:25 pm
Gabby had no idea that Sibyl was trying to catch a cloud, or else he would have explained to her how impossible that was. Instead, he started a slow descent, letting his wings glide lazily. "Hope you're having fun back there. We're coming down for a landing in a bit, so hold on." He still didn't understand that those tiny paws couldn't actually hold anything, but his descent was slow, and gentle, and lazy anyway. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the feel of cold air whipping through his hair and his wings. Now that he'd tasted the air once more, it was going to be hard to keep him from flying all the time again. It was several long minutes before he actually came closer to the ground, and when he did, his feet bent down to try and catch the ground with his claws. The bumpy feel of their bodies no longer moving forward was the only jarring sense to the landing, but it lasted only a moment. He turned his head and gave her a cautious glance. "No throw up, right?"
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