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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:53 am
Aricia nearly frowned, but that would have broken the look. It had almost worked! She could tell it had. She'd just have to try harder.
Fresh tears suddenly welled up in those pleading eyes, causing them to shine. Then one wing (the white one) slowly covered her face as she looked down to the floor.
Maybe the pity thing would work.
"Y'coo pwa," she said to Jeanus in a heartbreakingly sweet tone that shivered like stars about to fall.
Whether or not it worked on Raja, it certainly worked for Kierla. "SHE SAID ANOTHER SENTENCE!" She always was a sucker for those big eyes. Before Jeanus could even have the chance to touch those wings, she pranced over and snatched her precious baby up. "SEE," she demanded to Raja, shoving the pegasus into his face.
Aricia lifted her head to give him full impact of her eyes.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:24 pm
No way, he wouldn't let it work. He'd dealt with those looksbefore, he just needed to master this one. Yes, it was a test. What if his daughter tried it on him someday? He had to be strong so that he could be a good parent, which led to him trying to stare down the girl as more delicate droplets appeared in her eyes and the magnificent little wing added to the display. At least his daughter wouldn't hav- scratch that. She would have wings, just not feathery ones like that.
Pity was hard to ignore, but the feline just repeated to himselfin his head that this wasn't his daughter. He had to protect his own little girl. That was what allowed him to stand firm inhis decision. At least until the girl was literally shoved in his face.
The man stumbled a step back as an even more full blast of those large darling eyes was pushed upon him by the rather excited mother and he managed a small smile. "Uh, y-yes she did. I saw." And things were even cuter up close. Even cute things had trouble in themt hough, Keanu had been darling. Ah yes, but he'd nearly given him a heart attack. One had to learn to be wary and not fall for the tricks... even if it did feel like he had to turn into a souless thing to deny something so darling. "Maybe... she'd like something else from my bag?" Something less breakable, because the shield was definitely crumbling.
Jeanus who had been abandoned on the floor as the woman plucked her child away from his reaches gave a light sigh. Well he couldn't touch anyway, so perhaps... He looked up as his father suggested something else. "Ee tick-tick silvee." He called quickly. Raja had never been big on wearing watches on his wrist, so instead there was always a silver pocket watch stuffed away in the bag. Something Jeanus had yet to be able to figure out really, so the item was of great interest to him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:07 pm
Kierla suddenly turned into her emotionless self, and practically dropped Aricia back on the floor. "Go play, Aricia."
It was obvious, however, she was still proud of her child's miniscule accomplishment.
Aricia sighed; what a heartless world to deny a girl's heart! Well, he did say something else...."Shyee?" she questioned hopefully. "Toos?"
And what was this ee tick-tick silvee thing? It sounded pretty enough. Maybe it was a dress for her. "Ee-tickee-silv," she imitated, flouncing her dress into a more adorable position.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:20 pm
The tick-tick... Oh right, the watch. Well that was expendable, he could get a new one if the kids broke it. With the girl now a safe distance away he nodded. "Alright, fine you two can play with that." The girl seemed pleased enough with the idea, bubbling out her own versionof Jeanus' words. "Try not to break it though." Try being the keyword, he knew the abilities kids had when it came to breaking things on accident. After a moment of fishing in the bag he dug out the round watch. Indeed it was a bit shiny with a short metal chain that served no purpose with how Raja kept it. The object itself had a simple design of a few flower petals in the breeze on it. Then again, people usually took the design as they pleased. That was just how Raja has interpretted it.
The man let the bags flap fall back over to close it before dangling the watch down by it's chain with Jeanus happily snagged from where it was hanging. He knew quite well how to open the thing too. It only took a moment for him to shove the clasp open to reveal the clock's face and eye the second hand which always ticked on. "Ees still tick-tick. How it nevah nah tick-tick?" He mumbled half to himself before glancing at the girl. "Ees nah a toy. Ees sci-sci! Sci-sci like mageec buh it make logi." He said holding out the watch to show her. "Ee work tick-tick always when opens. How it know? Ees mageec sci-sci in work!" He nodded solemnly at that before glancing back at the device and poking it with as much interest as he had Aricia's wings until they'd been labeled completely off limits.
"It nah like wing-wing. Wing-wing live life thing. Person thing have wing-wing. Buh tick-tick silvee nah live life. Ees sci-sci. Da-da know how sci-sci work, buh nah say to Jenus how sci-sci work." He added giving the cat a look in hopes of instilling some guilt, which didn't work. As was usual. Jeanus was adorable, but he couldn't compare to the young pegasus' cuteness, and even she'd had trouble cracking the man.
"Not until you're older..." Hadn't he already explained to Jeanus that talking about that outside of work wasn't allowed? Children just had such short attention spans.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:27 pm
"I appreciate your kindness to Aricia," Kierla said courteously, lounging back on the couch. Now that the excitement of The First Sentence was officially over, she was beginning to remember her fatigue. But she couldn't fall asleep in front of people; that'd be undignified.
Aricia shrieked with joy. While not a dress, it was certainly very interesting. Her eyes followed the watch hungrily as she listened Jeanus's enlightening explanation. "Sci-sci-logi," she said in the voice of someone praying before a volcano.
With quick decision, she suddenly held out a hand, silently demanding the 'tickee silv'. "Wingee fo' tickee," she stated, flaring her wings behind her to reinforce her statement.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:00 pm
It was decided that Kierla had the right idea with the couch as the feline shrugged. "Nto a problem, but I might as well rest if I'm going to be here a while." Nothing ever got done when you brought the kids along. If anything things were undone. So with a fwump the man sat on the opposite side of the couch with a sigh. "Children are so tiring..." A truer statement had never been said, at least as far as he was concerned.
Jeanus nodded as sagely as someone his age could. "Yes, sci-sci is very logi and powaful." He stated happy to have gotten through to someone. Nothing interested Jeanus more than figuring out how things worked, and science seemed the best way to figure that out. Scientists just needed to be allowed to look at things long enough and they'd figure it out. At least, that's what he thought. Thus his interest in poking the glorious wings, and examining the watch. Not to mention those rocks. Very important things rocks where. Made of minral thingers and there was something about atoms somewhere in the babbling scientists did.
Of course those scientists had willing subjects, and now... the boy grinned at the proposition put before him, then glanced up at his father to see if he was watching. Nope, eyes closed and taking a momentary breather! It was a go! "Wing-wing for tick-tick silvee!" The boy chimed happily turning over the object into the girls outstretched hand. He could figure out the watch later, he had limited time to figure out how those wings worked. Well, until his father noticed. That could be long, or short... But Arianna wasn't around to cause a nice distraction, so it seemed fairly limited.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:07 pm
Kierla stole a glance at Raja, to make sure his eyes were closed. Then she stuck her head under a pillow, falling instantly asleep. After all, children were nobody important to be dignified in front of.
Aricia giggled, sensing the secrecy of the moment, and her hand closed possessively over the treasure. The hand retreated, bringing the novelty up to her eyes, as she turned her back toward Jeanus for better access to her wings.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:17 pm
Dignified? If Raja had known that the woman had beenw orried about that he might have died laughing. The feline was something of a joke if people knew enough about him. Still, he wasn't one to be taken lightly when he was angry either. Though falling asleep wasn't something Raja would care about, dozing in public was normal to him. He did have the mind of a cat afterall, what was wrong with an afternoon nap? Not that he dared such a thing when he had a child with him, just a moments breather on the couch. Just so long as there were no squeals of pain, or the sound of something crashing down(hopefully nothing expensive) and he'd be able to rest.
Jeanus gave his own little giggle of glee as he was once more allowed near those big fluffy feathers. They weren't like Arianna's at all, those weren't as fluffy or shiny as these. And this girl didn't have the feet like Arianna. She wasn't like Ymir drag-drag thing either. His were like leather and much more stiff. These were definitely nice and fluffy, but they had a similar shape. Well curve. Wings seemed to have a certain pattern to them. This was something he'd managed to observe, which meant. "Wing-wing thing need shape to fly-fly good?" He mumbled to himself lightly prodding the red wing momentarily. "Color make fly-fly better? Color matter?" This was a new concept. Arianna could not fly, but Ymir could. Did that mean that some colors could fly better? If so, then white was a better color. "Snow cool color better? Light better wing-wing color?" The boy squinted his eyes as if thinking hard, his lower lip sticking out a bit as he did. "Red wing-wing defecty nah work as good fly-fly?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:22 pm
Aricia was throuroughly confused by Jeanus's mumblings. Fly-fly? What was fly-fly? It was a new concept to her. To her, the wings were an ornament, something for attracting attention and for hiding behind when the occasional scary thing came out.
Ah. Well, who cared? She had a shiny tickee thing in front of her. Aricia squealed with delight as she held it up the her ear, listening attentively to the rhythmic ticking.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:32 pm
Jeanus understood the concept of fly-fly very well. After the man, something Keanu had called Alan as he babbled, taught him how to fly with Ymir he'd taken the younger brother for a a fly. It was a fun concept, one he knew he wouldn't manage without some aide, but still fun. Thus why the wings now held an interesting mystique in his mind. Getting no real reply regarding the question about if the red one was useless he turned his attention to the next thing. "Feathy wing-wing better than drag-drag wing-wing?" There was a new comparison to question. Ymir could fly well with his dragon wings, but could this girl fly?
It was time to find out.
Grabbing ahold of the wing he tried to make the thing flap to see if it worked well. Too roughly for that matter, but the boy really didn't know what it would feel like to have someone tug on it. Most people didn't want to poke at his tail, or ears. He was an odd sight to behold. Cute in his own way, the freckles helped with that, but still odd to look at. Many people were a bit intimidated by him perhaps. Then again, mostof the family he lived with was odd, so he thought nothing of his appearance. "You can fly-fly good? Up high-high with wing-wing?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:37 pm
The feathers on the wings were beginning to look distinctly ruffled, Aricia noticed, from all his tugging and prodding. And this annoyed her. He was going to mess them all up!
But it didn't annoy her nearly as much as his strange questions. Still, they had made a deal, so Aricia had to uphold her end. "Flyeewut?" she questioned, flapping her wings surreptitiously several times to try and get the feathers back into place.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:54 pm
"Fly-fly in sky!" He released the wing as she shifted it flapping his arms a bit then pointing up. "High-high like drag-drag thing an birdee." He stated with a firm nod and letting his arms fall back to his sides to see if the act had gotten through to her.
"Fly-fly ees fun. It go up and up up more. Wind go wishy through wing-wing and hair fast!" He called once more moving his hands as he tried to mimic the wind wishing through past you as you flew. "Fast like drag-drag thing fly?" He added leaning forward slightly awaiting the girl's reply. She'd be a good flyer right? At least one good white wing would mean that she had to be able to fly somewhat. Even if the red one was useless.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:02 pm
Okay, Aricia's vocabulary was definitely not that big yet.
"Wuta skee, birdee? N' dragee n' weeshy windy herfas'?" she asked in her own twisted version of Jeanus's already simplified way of talking.
She was getting irritable. What was the point of this deal if she didn't have some time to play with the tickee?
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:12 pm
What was sky and birdys? The boy blinked for a moment at that question debating on how to explain this all. "Sky ees way up high-high?" He mumbled tilting his head to one side. "Birdees fly-fly in sky." The boy rubbed at his hair thinking hard on how to explain wishy. Hadn't he done enough with the action. "Wishy ees wind go fast." Hair was easy. "This ees hair." He added reaching out to point at the black strands of hair that the girl had. "Windee go wishy in hair fastee." He gave a firm nod as he stated this, feeling he'd explained it quite well.
But he was beginning to doubt if this girl could fly, perhaps she was like Arianna? Then that must mean girls just couldn't fly. Only male things with wings could fly? That made some sense. "Girlee nah fly-fly?" Yes, that must have been it. Girls couldn't fly. It wasn't a fair thing, but certainly all proof was beginning to point to this.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:24 pm
"Skee..." Aricia struggled for the word 'blue'. What was that color called again? "...y'llow thing?" No, that didn't sound right. But it was too late to change it.
So birds were...things that flew in the 'high-high' thing. Was it like the yellow bright thing that moved across the sky, or the white sometimes-circle-sometimes-not thing that appeared after the yellow thing went down? "Birdee shyee-pretty?"
Hair was simple to understand. Wind and Wishy was harder. "Wishy windee go fwee by?" she clarified.
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