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 Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:36 am
Otieno looked at his now wet hand and shook it. Some drops landed on Andraste's face he groaned. The baby giggled satisfied and watched the girl on the other person's arm.
"Sounds difficult as well. I'm probably lucky that he didn't bring any pets a long." Ruffling through the boys hair Andraste nodded yes.
"Sure, we can still buy the clothes afterwards and it's nice to talk to you. Want to go to the cafe over there ?" Pointing at a certain shop labelled as cheap, the woman spoke. "Andraste."
Otieno seemed quite pleased and rubbed his head against Andraste's shoulder. He wanted to sit down now and wanted to eat. NOW !
Perhaps he could try and say another word as well ?
"Foooooooot"
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:04 am
Silver grinned, relaxing. "That would be great."
At the word, Ein giggled. Feet! Wriggling her own toes in reply, shge made an oogly face, because proper words were still too hard for her yet. Her mouth didn't seem to want to listen to her any more! Well. Neither did her feet, sometimes. Or her hands. But she wanted to taaaaalk.
So she settled for the oogly face. When Silver tugged her away from chewing grasp of the boy and moved her towards the cafe, she began to wriggle.
Furiously.
"She's more of a handful then I expected." Silver said, bouncing Ein slightly to show who she was talking about. At the unexpected movement Ein stopped wriggling and giggled, waving her arms around and commanding more bounces. "and I'm still a little bit uneasy about the fact that they were..." well. She blinked. "you know." Criminals.
Ein looked too cute to be a criminal.
Ananchel moved ahead, clearly wanting to put some distance between herself and the subject.
Silver continued to talk. "Sometimes I wonder if she wants to tell me something that she can't? Like a foreigner, or those paralyzed people."
Ein waved her arms at Otieno. Look! Her mommy bounced her!
"But then she giggles like that, and she's like a normal kid again!"
Silver paused. Wait. Had she talked too much again?
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:57 am
Slowly moving towards the cafe Andraste listened to the other woman's words and just nodded once in a while. She was one of those talking persons probably. Andraste knew that she wasn't one herself, but sometimes she enjoyed to listen and to say nothing at all.
Otieno noticed the movement of Ein's feet and shook his head. No no, he had meant the eating stuff. Kocking his head to one side he opened and closed his mouth to make clear what he wanted. Didn't she like to eat ?
"Uneasy. Indeed." Looking at the boy with suspicion Andraste sighed. "Sometimes I just suggest he does things on purpose, but I don't know...if he's a real baby or just sometimes...weird."
Otieno growled slightly, but then focused on Ein again. He wanted to be bounced as well ! Poking Andraste with his claws he looked up at her and tried to look as nicely as possible.
The woman was startled and blinked several times. She moved one hand through his hair, which caused Otieno just to sigh. She didn't understand.
"I can understand, Ein is really lovely. She doesn't have..teeth."
As they reached the cafe Andraste sat down on a chair and just rearranged Otieno on her lap.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:04 am
Ein blinked. Now, why was Otieno doing a fish impression? Hmmm... oh, was it animal impression time, then? Ein flapped her arms then, trying to quack like a duck. If he could do a fish impression, she could do duck impressions!
Silver frowning, holding the baby a little bit away so as to avoid the movements of the arms. Wincing as she sat down, she giggled as she caught the last couple of words.
"Does he bite? A lot?" she amended her words with a nod. Well. If her baby had teeth... she paused, and blinked. "Why don't the babies breast feed? Do you think when Otieno was really, really young, he would have had to? Do you think that would have hurt."
Ananchel blushed. "Please, Silver." she said. "We're in public."
Silver blinked. So? It was an honest question.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:52 am
Otieno growled. No, no, she couldn't do it right. She was a stupid girl ! Hitting with his tiny fists onto the table he barked at Ein. "Ein ! Ein !"
Andraste just glanced at the boy for a moment and decided that she needed a strong coffee now.
"Yeah, he loves chewing and biting and ruining our couch. He often bites his sister too." Otieno didn't seem to mind that she stated this and just continued his rambling.
That was a weird question. Perhaps the mothers on his planet had gummy breasts ?
Andraste grinned at the thought and nodded towards Ananchel. "Ack, don't worry. I gave birth to a fishbaby, I'm used to such things." Wait. That had to sound even more strange.
"Well, she has blue skin like Otieno...like the guy I live with." Scratching her head she continued. "You know, I breast feed her, but I think nobody could do that to Otieno." One of her hands moved closer to Silver. "See these marks. He did it."
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:27 pm
Ein continued to stare. Did he like her name so much? Frowning as she tried to work it out, she stared intently, the snakes in her hair hissing as is trying to lull her mind into ... well, receptiveness.
Ein did not like this whole baby thing any more.
"Bleh." making a noise of defeat, Ein turned her head, staring at Ananchel. Rubbing her stomach, she made imploring eyes. She was hungry! All that quacking had made her work up an appetite.
"A fish baby?" Silver's mind set her a picture of a blue fish with human arms and legs attached to it's body. Deciding that it probably must not look like that, Silver smiled. "Oh, the person you live with? Why is your other child part fish? Is your..." she paused. husband. lover... hmmm... "Is he part fish?"
At the marks on her arms, Silver widened her eyes and oohed and ahed appropriately. Actually, she liked threatrics, and besides, it was scary. With a sliding glance of (respect) wariness at the little boy, she blinked.
"I thought I had it back with the two snakes." she said.
Ananchel coughed lightly. "Would you like to order? And Ein wants something to eat."
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:24 am
Otieno became tired quite quickly and allowed his had to drop onto the table. He heard the hisses, but he didn't care. He was hungry and tired and he wanted to be able to express himself better to this girl. The boy didn't even react as she seemed disgusted.
"Well, she has red hair and blue skin and pointed ears. No fins actually. I feared she'd have such a shark thing and...ouch." Andraste's face wrinkled as she thought about it. "Actually she's part Nokke. That's a race that lures people into rivers and such and sings and is blue. They have legs so."
Blushing horribly Andraste scratched her head. "He is...the baby's father, but we're not a couple or something. We...used to be colleagues at work. He is part Nokke and yeah, so is Nila." It was an embarrassing fact, but Andraste wasn't good enough at making up stories so quickly.
"Sure, I think I'd like a coffee and Otieno could use something to eat as well. What would you like ?" Poking the small one, she only received a grumble as an answer. "Perhaps some meat balls." The mother decided.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:32 pm
Meatballs? Ein sparked up at then, beaming. Turning her head and nodding furiously at Ananchel (she knew what _they_ were. And they were biiiiiig!) she frowned, waving her arms in a gigantic circle.
"I'll get it." Ananchel offered. "The waiter doesn't seem to be interested in us yet." Silver opened her mouth to order and was met with. "Milk. You need milk. Calcium."
Silver sulked, turning her attention to Andraste. "Nila sounds really pretty." she said honestly, nodding her head. She didn't mention anything about the baby's father. Actually, Silver thought it sounded romantic. Not a couple, but living together and with two kids? Siiigh.
Ein continued to stare at Otieno's head. Why was it on the table? Hmmm... maybe he could hear something through the vibration? Mimicing the actions, Ein frowned.
No. No. She couldn't hear anything yet.
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:52 am
One of Otieno's ears twitched slightly as he pressed his forehead against the table's surface. He heard the voices, but he wouldn't come back to living until his food was there. Ein didn't seem to understand his cravings anyway.
Pouting suddenly an idea flashed through the young mind. Slowly his teeth made their way into the table's material.
"Thank you." Andraste nodded towards Ananchel and turned back to Silver. "Milk ? Aww come on, why do you have to ?" It was supposed to sound friendly, but regarding Andraste's way of thinking not everybody could understand it in that way.
She laughed as she saw Ein imitating Otieno. "Looks like they get along. Strange kiddos."
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:08 pm
Ein stared. Looking down at the table, she frowned. She attempted to bite through, except it hurt her mouth a LOT! Staring suspiciously at those teeth, she propped her chin onto the table and continued to stare.
Rather goulishly.
"She thinks she's my mother." Silver grumbled. And grinned. "Came to join the household before, to make sure I led a good and exemplery..." she had no idea how to pronounce the word. "life? Or something." making a face at the thought of milk, (come on, it came from COWS!) she frowned.
"I'm surprised." Silver admitted. "I didn't think a boy with fangs would take to a girl like..." she waved her hand at Ein's head, and one of the snakes arched back to give her a dirty look.
Silver was still sulking after the biting incident.
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:30 am
Otieno noticed that it hurt is teeth as well and pulled them out of the table. He had made some funny markings and proudly he pointed at them. Ein didn't seem so excited about it and so he cocked his head to one side and waved at the girl.
Then he poked out his tongue and grinned.
"Oh...sound difficult." Andraste grinned. She wasn't the only one with strange relationships as it seemed. Silver started to appear sympathic to her now. "I bet you're able to deal with it though."
"Snakes." The woman added and looked at the hair again with interest. "Isn't there some kind of myth ?...Medusa or something. Wow, perhaps she'll be able to turn people into stone figures later !"
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:10 am
Silver laughed. She couldn't help it. "You know, knowing Ein's temperment, it's going to be one of those things that she regrets." There was some (SOME) amusement in her tone, because Ein was Ein. "She's like that. One minute hurling abuse and the next acting as if your the most important thing in the world."
Ananchel came back with their orders quick enough to hear the last comment. "She's going to wrap the men around her finger when she grows up." Ananchel smiled, placing napkins and cutlery down. "They said they'll bring it around." she explained.
Ein giggled at the tonge poking. The markings didn't interest her too much. (She couldn't compete with _that_. Hey... maybe her hair could... nah. Did snake babies even have strong teeth?) It was a different color! Making goo goo noises now, she reached out. Forgetting the generalities of biology, she strained across the table to pat Otieno's nose/tongue area.
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:44 am
"At least she has different moods. Otieno is always grumpy or likes to sleep or to eat. I wouldn't call it a mood though, it's just...him." Andraste shrugged and watched the babies' game with interest.
As Ananchel came back she nodded to show that she had heard what she said. Hopefully the meat balls would come soon, Otieno appeared to be hungry.
"Perhaps she'll be able to calm him down later on. Would be great."
"Ein !" The blue baby repeated as he noticed her coming closer. Was the hug thing about to come now ? Friendship and such ? As he felt a hand directly on his face Otieno's eyes widened in shock. What was she doing ? What was he supposed to do ? How ?
Quickly he tried to push her hand away with his own ones.
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:56 am
Eeee! He wanted to hold her hand! Knowing that sometimes her own motor functions didn't listen to her, and deciding that the pushing away action was only part of this, she squealed, wiggling her feet in an attempt to get away from her guardian to to latch onto this strange blue thing.
Grasping his hands rather firmly, she giggled. Look-- were they friends now? She thought so! It had never been so _easy_ before. And this boy was so friendly, wanting to hold her hand already!
Silver blinked. Half distracted by Ein's movements, she lost track of the last couple of words being said by Andraste in favor for watching with a sense of... well, bewilderment. Wait, was she supposed to stop this? Or what?
"Where did the name Otieno come from?" Silver asked.
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:50 am
Otieno was overwhelmed by Ein's squealing and regarded as an attack more than friendship. What was going on ? What was happening ? His mind was puzzled with the way she reacted and as his hands were touched he hadn't any choice but to grab hers firmly as well. The only difference was that he had claws and their tips probably reached her skin.
"Eeeee !" He screamed and tried to look for some help, even if it was Andraste.
The woman was just about to answer as the piercing scream could be heard. "What is it ?" Looking down she couldn't notice anything that might hurt him, but his claws looked pretty dangerous. "No, come on, stop it." She growled and tried to get the small hands away from each other.
"It was his father's choice. He said it came right into his mind when he saw him. We looked it up later on, it means born at night, which is pretty freaky regarding that he's scared of the darkness."
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