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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:16 pm
... Mama was serious. ”No, Mama.” she said, shaking her head, ”That's silly. Can we just... Get the presents and play the games? I don't want to jog.” she felt a little terrible with each word. She knew her Mama liked fun and games, and Kiki did too, but it all sounded too complicated, really convoluted. ”We don't have to make up a game to make it fun.” She squeezed her Mama's hand, ”Lets just... do something...” she spotted a ball-throwing game, and brightened. Perfect ”Bet I can beat you in that!” she giggled, pointing.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:32 pm
Kaalnia was a little disappointed that her daughter didn't want to go jogging or play the really neat game that she had come up with – and it was a really neat game that she was pleased to have come up with - but, in true Kaalnia style, she was also happy to roll with it. ”Sure, sure.” she said, laughing. It was a little less interesting, but Kiunyki did have a point. Anything was fun when you did it with your baby girl, right?
”Oh yeah?” Kaalnia grinned, ”Bet you can't!”
They went to the ball game and threw balls at various weighted hollow nuts. A simple game, sure, but one that brought out the competitive spirit in both of them. It wasn't long before they were shouting and whooping and hollering together, vying for whoever could score the highest.
Finally, though, Kaalnia had to admit the win to her daughter. ”You win!” she said merrily, ”Good throwing!” she presented the game prize with some fanfare – a wooden figurine of a mammu. Of course, she had held back, but she wasn't going to tell her daughter that! Let Kiki think she'd done it on her own.
They meadered from stall to stall, buying food here, painting faces there, playing until any weariness that they might have had from their everyday lives had simply melted away....
Until...
”Kaalnia!” Kaa looked up to see an elder of her aquaitence calling her name and waving her over... she did not look like she was having a good time. Spuds. more conflict resolution? Leaves and shoots, this is a festival. Why can't people go have fun and leave the stupidity behind? but of course, they couldn't, and if there was a problem Kaalnia supposed she could help. ”Kiki, Mama has to go help someone. Are you all right on your own?” she handed the girl some trade goods, ”Here. Get something you like and I'll meet you later.” she kissed Kiki on the head, ”Okay?”
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:44 pm
Kiki nodded. She understood. Still flushed from their fun, she let her mother go, knowing she would be back soon, and went to the market stalls. There was always something she wanted, and possibly she could find something for Mama too, but the problem was that there was just so much stuff to choose from! Who could choose!
”Hey Kiki!” Kiki turned to see her group of friends, and smiled. She'd wondered where they were.
”Hi!” she said, ”Are you having fun?”
”Yeah!” Said one of them, ”Wanna come with us?”
Kiki nodded. Of course she did. Gifts could happen later, when Mama was around to talk to.
Later, Kaalnia would hear about a hybrid being bullied by her daughter... and she wouldn't believe it. Not until she had to...
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:47 pm
Hanging out at home with her daughter was a real treat for Kaalnia. Of course, she could do this whenever she wanted, really, but that didn't make it any less great. She rested on the wooden platform, out of the heat, watching her daughter play in the village floor below.
The only thing that could make it better would be her brother-friend, but she knew he was busy with his girl... Ohhh, his girl. Him and Iroia were great together. Now if only that... monster... wasn't there... But she couldn't hold the iceling against her, not when she made Vosh so happy!
And, miraculously, there he was! Vosh, in the blue flesh. ”Hey!” she waved him over, laughing joyfully as she patted a seat beside her. ”Come on out of the heat and sit down! How've you been?!”
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:40 pm
It didn't take long for Votzhem to feel energized. Kaalnia wasn't in sight yet, but the thought of the bombastic Sister was enough to make him grin prematurely. It hadn't been the best of days, but that he was going to hang out with one of his dearest friends made everything else worth it. He didn't have to see her to feel the aura of liveliness that she exuded, and seeing her made him feel the need to run a few laps. In all, hanging out with Kaalnia made it a good day. ”It's about as hot there as here.” he commented, joining her, ”I've been good! Good hunting with good company, shame you weren't along.” he didn't need to say why she hadn't. Aside from being busy as a mother and a Sister and just generally doing her thing, there was the matter of the iceling, Ruelash, and their... history.
He knew a little of it, and had heard the stories of her tournament defeat and her subsequent nightmares and despair. It was hard to believe that someone like Kaalnia could lose even a little of her will to live... but stranger things had happened. ”What about you?”
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:38 pm
Kiunyki played alone. Her friends were elsewhere, and Mama needed her rest. Currently, her wooden toy weapons lay, forlornly, by the deck – Kiki had gotten frustrated with them. She would try them again later, when her Mama could help her beat up the training dummy and make the funny comments that made training bearable.
For now, though, she built houses in the mud – huts, not tree houses, but it was the best she could do with leaves and mud and stones. She played with little alkidike dolls, giving them families and lives as they went about their business in their little mud village.
There were no hybrids among them. No earthlings, either. It was a good village.
Kaalnia's greeting made Kiki look up curiously – and then tense as the man she had known her whole life arrived. The scene she was playing out remained in her hands, paused, as she watched him sit down, bristling.
There were no hybrids in her perfect village... but there was one here. She stared at him intently. What did he want?
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:43 pm
”Oh, you know, about the same!” Kaalnia said. She noticed her daughter looking at them and waved at her. ”Hey! Kiki! Look who came over – It's Uncle Voshhy!” she grinned, oblivious to her daughter's judgement. ”Things have gotten a little...” she frowned, briefly, ”Hang on.” her tone dropped into something more conspirational... and concerned. ”Say, Vosh, are you doing okay? With all the... stuff... happening around here? I mean, you are... and...” she trailed off, a little awkwardly, ”Yeah...?” He was a hybrid. The crazy things that people were saying... it had just dawned on her that they would effect him. Personally.
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