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 Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:52 pm
Yup. I made it worse...
"Please try not to be too mad at your mom Arian... I'm sure your mom will explain why she did this when she gets back..." she started, getting up from her seated position and walking over to him. "And it's only for a week. Like Mikomi said, my dad left me alone for over 19 years to fend for myself. You're lucky"
Mikomi blinked, feeling REALLY bad for seemingly scaring him with her question.
"I... I'm sorry... you don't have to if you don't want to..." she muttered sadly. She didn't like to frighten people, even if it was just an accident.
She started thinking about things that Arian said earlier, about it being his Uncle Kori's fault. The mean man must be watching Arian was his mama was away. Maybe he just needed a break from him. That's when an idea came to the little spirit.
"Would... would you like to come over for dinner tonight? Mama's getting a lot better at cooking... but like I said... if you don't want to..."
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:05 pm
But what if she doesn't come back? Arian thought miserably. What if...
The rest of what Tayne said sunk in "Nineteen years?!" He sounded surprised. Nineteen years was ages and ages in Arian's book, but maybe if Tayne's Daddy could come back, then maybe just maybe his Mummy would come back - although he didn't want her to take nineteen years - nineteen years was almost forever!
Arian blinked at Mikomi as she looked sad suddenly "I don't mind helping you draw the leaf. I just.. Are you sure you really want me to help you?" The unicorn spirit couldn't understand why Mikomi would want him to help her when he hadn't managed to get his drawings completely right, but if she really wanted him to then he was ok with...
He realised that Mikomi was still speaking and then looked hesitant "Would it be ok if I did. I don't think Uncle Kori can cook at all since he keeps ordering pizza and I'm sick of pizza... And the first time he ordered a meat pizza and I don't eat meat so I couldn't eat it."
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:52 pm
The blue-violet haired woman smiled. A dinner guest WOULD be nice...
"I don't mind at all Arian, but you should double check with Kori, just in case. You don't have to right now though, dinner is a few hours away yet..."
"It's just you jumped when I asked...See?" she bent down and plucked a silver feather from off the ground. "You even lost a few feathers... I didn't mean to scare you..." she said, twirling the feather in her hand slighly.
Listening to Arian, Mikomi became a bit confused. "Veg...ge...tar..i...an...?" she stated, unsure of the word. She had read many books, but that word never came up in any of them. "Is that when certain foods make you sick?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:10 pm
Arian made a face when Tayne mentioned telling Uncle Kori, although if Mummy had been there she would have probably made him tell Uncle Kori too "Ok, though he probably won't even care." Not that he was going to ask right now as he didn't really want to talk to Uncle Kori right now.
Arian shook his head "I was juat thinking so I didn't really hear you properly at first and it took me by surprise... It doesn't mean I mind." He smiled "And I'm always losing feathers.. Mummy said it was just the older ones though."
He paused slightly for breath before answering the second question "Vegetarian just means that I don't eat meat. Not that it'd make me sick.. At least I don't think it would." He frowned "I still don't want to eat it though."
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:30 pm
"Oh!" she exclaimed slightly. "I'm glad I didn't scare you then! I don't like to scare people." Looking at his book again, she pondered at how to procede.
"How do you make the leaf's vainy things? Those always confuse me..." she admited shyly, glancing back and forth from the book to Arian.
"No meat then. But tell me Arian, what do you like to eat?" asked Tayne. "Is there anything special that you'd like me to make?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:37 pm
Arian looked at Tayne "I don't really mind as long as it's not pizza - all Uncle Kori does is order pizza and it was ok for the first and second day, but now I'm sick of pizza."
Turning his attention back to Mikomi he told his female lanturn spirit "I'm not very good at drawing the vein-thingy, but I'm trying to practise to get better.
That's why I keep the leaf so I can see what it looks like and try and draw it properly. That and practise more and more so I can get better."
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:54 pm
Mikomi tilted her head. Arian wasn't very confident in his abilities as an artist. All he had to say about it was critisism. Maybe this wasn't a good idea after all.
"Would you feel better to postpone the lesson until you feel your skills have improved?" she asked with full out thoughtfull-ness. "We could do something else if you want."
Tayne yawned and sat back down, thinking. Arian and Kaze were talking about food the last time they met, and the boy asked her for something. Now what was it?
She could only remember, at least at that very moment, that it contained bannana.
But she was determined to figure it out before he came over for dinner.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:55 pm
Arian shook his head "Not unless you don't want to" Arian said. "I'll never get better if I don't practise and I want to be really good one day." The unicorn spirit smiled at Mikomi "I kind of like drawing, especially with other people. I drew some pictures with someone called Prisma once and she did a pretty rainbow-coloured picture... And she let me keep a feather for my feather collection. Mummy's helped me draw too - but she doesn't really like to draw."
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:53 pm
Mikomi smiled back the best she could, then wondered if she looked odd. Pushing the thought aside she walked over to the tree Arian was sitting against when she first saw him and sat down.
"Okay then... how about I watch you for a little, and then I'll try!" she suggested happily. Arian was so nice, and the little spirit was becoming inwardly exited about him coming over for dinner.
That is if his Uncle Kori let him.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:55 am
Arian found himself grinning as Mikomi smiled - the purple lanturn spirit seemed a little shy to him, but the fact she was smiling meant she didn't mind being around him...
At least he hoped she didn't mind being around him.
"That works for me" he told her, turning to a clean page in his book before looking carefully at the leaf.
"I always draw the outside of the leaf first" he said as he carefully drew the outline of the leaf, trying to remember to make the lines faint at first like he'd been taught. That way it'd be easier for him to try and fix things later.
"Drawing the outside is the easy part."
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:14 pm
Almost unblinking Mikomi watched Arian as he began to sketch the outside of the leaf. She noted how he held the pencil and how he used it. She REALLY didn't want to mess up, especially after Arian had begun to go through all the trouble of teaching her.
"Okay... I see..." was all that she muttered, her attention fixed soley on what he was saying and what his hands were doing.
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:28 pm
Arian finished off the outline of the leaf with quick, deft strokes of the pencil and then frowned with concentration as he tried to put the lines in.
He looked at the leaf a lot as he did it and did as best he could, although it still didn't look right to him. Finally though he was finished and he showed Mikomi the end result. "That's what I do when I draw leaves" he said, before offering her the book and pencil. "Do you want to have a try?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:24 pm
With a small smile, the little spirit took the book gingerly into her hands. Propping it up on her knees, she then took the pencil from her new found friend and tried to hold it like he did.
It wasn't the way she was used to holding a pencil, even though the difference was only slight. Still, she wanted to do this the same way he did, so she would just have to deal with it.
Pressing the pencil on the paper, she made her first line. It was a bit dark, and it curved oddly to the left, or at least in her opinion. Removing some of the pressure, she stroked the pencil again, trying to make up for her odd first line. This one was much lighter, yet awefully swiggily. Sticking out her tongue in pure determination, she glanced over to the real leaf, then to the one that Arian had drawn. Another line. This one seemed slighly more leaf-like, though it pulled a bit more to the right then she would have wanted, and it was a bit long.
Erasing the extra part, she continued on until a scraggly outline of a leaf was finished. Mikomi stuck out her tongue farther in annoyance.
"It looks more like a cat then a leaf..."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:02 pm
Arian laughed, though his laughter had no malice to it. "You should see some of my first drawings - they were horrible! At least yours actually resembles something." His laughter faded to a smile "And I think cats are ok if confusing - they always seem so contrary to me."
Still smiling the unicorn spirit took a spare pencil and made a few changes to Mikomi's outline "See if you change it a little here and" he thought about it "Here. Then it starts to look more like a leaf."
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:52 am
Mikomi giggled then watched Arian again as he fixed her cat-leaf. He made it seem so easy, but then again, he said he was bad when he first started, so she shouldn't be so worried about it...
right?
Tayne smiled. It was so nice to see Mikomi laughing and smiling with someone other then herself. Arian was a little lifesaver with fluffy wings and a horn.
Taking in a deep breath, she sighed. Now if only someone was able to help her out with her other problem...
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