|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:25 pm
LuLu smirked at Ren's gleeful reaction. The elder frei could not help but give her wings a cheerful flap in return. The aurora had taken the lesson well enough and the rabbit was contented with seeing her teachings getting put to use. She was about to mention the whole temperature deal, but the younger of the two had already tucked her dearest under a lithe arm for protection. Blackened eyes blink in surprise. However, she decided to shrug it off. Lu had seen odder things in her short lifetime. In fact, her own appearance was far from 'normal'.
LuLu followed after Ren as they departed the store. The search for a new shop to ransack had started. Her eyes drifted to the left. There was nothing markedly exciting to speak of, unless you considered a post office exhilarating. Viewing the right only provided more of the same. Her attention moved back to Ren. More specifically, the lava lamp the aurora had just thrust into her arms. She shifted the glass between the crook of either elbow awkwardly before she made a move to speak to her acquaintance. She was confused as to why the girl was suddenly putting so much trust into her when only seconds before she had been accused of murdering the device. "Are you sure you want me to ha-"
LuLu jumped and nearly dropped Ren's beloved as she watched the gradient haired girl make a move to punch the window. The rabbit missed stopping her by a few seconds. LuLu cringed as the other girl's slight fist connected with the clear plane and released a sickening crunch. The elder felt her stomach drop and hovered close to her counterpart. She was determined to find any sign of injury. Scrutinizing black eyes widened. To her surprise, like the rows of boring shops around them, there was nothing interesting to see. Ren's arm was unmarred. Even as she, literally, ripped the cracked glass apart piece by jagged piece, not a scratch formed on her pristine skin.
LuLu moved back when the window completely crumbled into a splintered mess. Unlike Ren, her skin was not completely impervious. She tilted her head as she took in the satisfied, and slightly berserk, look fitted onto the aurora's face. She questioned to herself why Ren had not done this sooner and saved the rabbit from busting in the last two shops? Perhaps the girl had just needed time to warm herself up to the idea.
The rabbit commented as she returned Ren's lamp, "Feel better now?"
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:14 am
Lulu had not only gifted the lava lamp to Ren, but she had also taught her how to care for the new thing, coaxing it into life from a cold slumber. If there was only one other person to trust with the newest addition to her life, surely it was the rabbit frei. Or perhaps it was simply that the newborn had no one else to trust at the moment and the concrete seemed an awful place to be leaving things around. Although the pair had met no one else on their midnight journey so far, that wasn't to say a midnight stranger would not appear from the depths of night to steal her precious!
Although the aurora did not have the visible signs of her soul stamped across her skin, the visible evidence of the glass simply slipping past the flesh to shatter on the pavement was proof enough of the moonstone origin.
Revon’s wings gave a satisfied flutter at the destruction. At the first shop she had not imagined such a course of action as an option, and at the electrical store the frei had been distracted, enraptured with the green glow of that mystic thing she now took back from the inky frei.
Better late than never, right?
Cradling the lamp in one arm, the newborn moved into the store, not hearing or deliberately not responding to the other’s inquiry as she cast her gaze around. Although the animals had put up a fuss once they had begun to break in, they quieted somewhat, lulled by the sight of something which, while not familiar in its entirety, was not unfamiliar either.
The girl leaned over to look into a large aquarium, free hand brushing across the glass and smiling as the fish followed the trail of her fingers. Perhaps it was simply that she seemed to spend so much time around water, especially when feeding, but the frei seemed always drawn to the more aquatic of creatures.
But she didn’t stay long at their enclosure. Despite the desire to free these encaged creatures, the young one knew better than to try and release fish from their watery home. She wanted to save them, not kill them! Instead Revontulet moved to a cage full of kittens and lifted one gingerly to peer at it at eye-level. Doulcette had two small dogs at home, but the frei had never seen a cat before. It was lithe and thin with large, inquisitive eyes. Ren decided she liked it, but not as much as she liked the watery creatures on the other side of the store.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:57 pm
The elder frei followed Ren inside the pet shop. The good thing about having no feet was that broken glass was easy enough to avoid. LuLu's noted a soft buzzing in her ears as she crossed the shattered threshold into the store. Fortunately, the shop itself was relatively small and under-stocked in animals. One side of the building had puppies and kittens. The other side contained the cold blooded variety of pets.
Lu's eyes honed in on a few fish tanks jutting from a wall. The rabbit followed her cohort towards them. They cast an almost ethereal blue glow in the darkness. She tapped a finger against the glass of one tank and watched the various fish inside dart away. One in particular caught her attention to where she barely noticed Ren leaving her side. The fish of interest was small, but ostentatiously adorned. Each scale that lined its body was smooth and progressed in a perfect purple blue gradient. A tiny fin graced each side of its head. Once it felt the danger had passed, the fish darted back out with a little showy, bouncy dance that could only be described in one way: pompous.
This fish reminded her so much of Sevilin.
Suddenly, whatever semblance of a calm mood the frei had been experience disappeared. Rage seethed into LuLu like a cork had come loose on her bottled up emotions. She tapped her hand against the tank again and took joy in seeing that particular fish swim for cover. Yet, sure enough, it would come back out after a few second just as pretentious and flamboyant as before. This process repeated itself a few times over though each time LuLu felt her anger becoming more and more unhinged. Each tap against the tank grew more and more violent.
'CRACK!'
A thin line ran across the front of the tank. Water seeped from it like an oozing wound. Part of LuLu wanted to stay and observe the water inside the tank run dry. That part of her wanted to watch the struggle of that ostentatious fish. That part wanted to see it reduced to the same gasping flopping mess as all the other muddy brow creatures in the tank. That part wanted to witness its last breath. Yet, another distant part of LuLu realized how insane that desire was.
LuLu noticed that the buzz in her ears had grown into an incessant ring. The rabbit rubbed idly at the ink soaked fur of the two sensitive appendages atop her head. Had the glass window breaking damaged them in some way? Her ears twitched a refocused. The sound changed somewhat. It was no longer muffled and place-less like a dysfunctional surround sound. Now she could tell the deafening hum in her ears was not just coming from her head. It had a direction. That direction was behind her.
The raevan turned around and froze in place. There in two wire cages, the likes of which made her skin crawl, was a family of white rabbits. They were separated into males and females almost like slaves ready for the auction block. The noise was just that, noise. It was shrill and siren-like in her ears which was nothing like how rabbits should have sounded to her. LuLu was in shock. Never before had she been unable to understand her siblings. The language had always been second nature to her as though she had been born with the knowledge ingrained into her. However, the translation was coming to her patchy at best. LuLu would pick up on nouns injected sloppily between verbs in a way that resembled the sentence a two year old would concoct. Understanding them seemed near impossible.
Yet, one word was very clear to her: monster.
It was repeated over and over again by the rabbits like a nervous mantra. LuLu loomed closer to her imprisoned brothers and sisters. A thought ran through her head that left her body cold. Maybe her essence had taken control so much she had lost contact with her soul. It frightened LuLu that she had become such a monster now that she could no longer call these creatures her family. She could not understand them anymore. However, she did not need to understand what they were saying to recognize their fear. It was moving liquid-like in their black eyes. Those who she thought of as family were afraid of her now. Would Josh also be afraid if he saw her?
She placed her hand on a cage. Its occupants' din practically exploded in volume. LuLu's ears fell back against her head to protect themselves from the racket and any hurtful words she might have still been able to pick up on. The frei traced a ink coated hands along the cages' slim metal bars until her finger flipped the locks open on each. Both doors opened with a metallic creak. LuLu could not help but look dejectedly at the rabbits inside.
When Nicholae had broken her heart, she had accepted that her and rabbits were not synonymous. She was alike to a point that of which she had learned not to cross. It was a big lesson learned. Yet, now things had changed. She felt like she had nothing left in common with the furry creatures shaking in front of her. LuLu mumbled softly to the rabbits, "Sorry for scaring you." She spoke slowly and deliberately making sure to take her time forming each word, but each critter gave her an equally confused stare. Not one of them had comprehended what she had said. The frei could not stand it anymore. Interacting with these rabbits was only reminding her more and more how much of herself she had lost. LuLu left the cages open, but she wished desperately that she would have been able to coo sweet comforts to the rabbits and announce their freedom from the pet shop like she had for others before them.
LuLu returned to Ren's side. The older of the two spoke airily still somber from her experience, "I want to go."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:20 pm
Lulu’s interest in the fish tanks had seemed perfectly rational to the aurora. Who would not enjoy gazing at such a serene, beautiful landscape and watching the undulating drift of fish within their own, perfect world? So she had left the other to inspect the other animals without comment, content in her knowledge that she and the rabbit shared a similar interest in things other than destruction.
It was not until she heard the now very familiar sound of glass straining and then cracking that Ren realized she was very wrong.
Dropping the cat with little care for its wellbeing (lucky for her, cats land on their feet, right?), the newborn hurried to the tank that now displayed an ugly crease in its makeup. The water that managed to escape through the miniscule exit was not alarming in its speed, but it would eventually drain out and leave the poor fish gasping, a dried out husk on the make-believe ocean floor. Also a possibility, though too advanced for Revon to understand, was the glass breaking further, the water pressing against it in such a need to escape that it would bore upon the crack until it made an exit worth fretting about. Luckily, such an instance was yet a while off and true panic could be avoided.
Juggling the newly obtained lava lamp between both hands for a moment, the girl debated the best course of action while the rabbit drifted away. Revontulet didn’t know if she was content with her destruction, adding it to the tally of broken glass throughout the night’s adventures, or simply bored with the fish, but it mattered very little to the frei at this moment. Placing the lava lamp on one of the shelves, she grabbed a large bowl and began trying to catch the water leaking from the tank. Unfortunately it simply wasn’t draining fast enough for this method to work and she eventually dunked it into the top of the tank, wetting her hands and misting the waters with the paint that washed from her skin.
The little fish was not pleased with such actions. It hid in its home and stared with one eye at the activity.
Meanwhile, the ink creature was busy with her own things, of which Ren took no interest or notice. Surely she could take care of herself. However, when approached with a sulky I want to go, the aurora paused mid-bowl filling and looked at her newest friend. That sad expression once again lingered like heavy smoke about the dark creature, but Revon could find nothing to say in reply much as before. Not only did she not know what had transpired, but she was in the middle of a mission.
“Ok,” she said, turning back to the fish, “I will stay here.” The words were not spoken brusquely or by any means angrily; there was simply an air of distraction around the young frei. Certainly, if she had been less occupied, she’d have joined her friend in the escape back into the night.
Returning to her task of filling the bowl, the aurora looked at the tank unhappily. The fish would be quite difficult to catch and rehome indeed. She was fast, but surely he was faster. For a long moment she despaired before spying a little net hooked to the tank and with glee Ren grabbed it and began swishing it about in the tank, trying desperately to capture the little guy and move him to his new home.
After much physical exertion and covering herself in water, Revontulet considered the mission a success. A satisfied expression was given to the little jewel now swimming safely in his new, though less interesting, home. The floor was soaking wet and no doubt someone would slip on it the next morning if they were not careful, but the newborn felt a sense of accomplishment none-the-less.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:23 pm
Once again at Ren's side, LuLu finally realized she was also infront of the fish tanks again. That also meant she was not far enough away from the rabbits for comfort. As much as LuLu enjoyed her new cohort's company, the rabbit was not bound to the other frei by any real obligation. She only really had one commitment to abide to. Tonight was meant to be a night of fun, despite the bad mood that she could not seem to shake, and the elder raevan was not going to find any enjoyment in tending to fish. Especially when she had been the one to put them in that predicament in the first place.
Though LuLu had sentenced those fish to a grim fate, she would not protest against Ren's actions to help them. From its conception, the death of the fish had been more of an idea than an actual plan. She had no intentions of seeing through their demise. Whatever happened to them would be in the aurora's hands now. If this is what pleased the younger girl then Lu did not have much right to complain. So far, Ren and LuLu's ideas of fun had run together. That pattern could only last so far though before their paths decided to diverge. This would be the point at which they parted ways. It was not out of ill will. Rather, it was due to a difference of motives.
The rabbit frei nodded to Ren, acknowledging her choice with a sigh. Her darkened eyes trained after the other as she grabbed for a small green met. LuLu did not stay to see the conclusion of her companion's struggles. She had already slipped out of the shop before the aurora had even dipped the net into the water.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
