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 Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:28 am
Late at night, while the stars are hidden by dark cloud, the air is still and quiet and the moon has hidden itself away, something draws X's eyes to the mirror. It's sitting peacfully, not quite as hazy as she remembers it, and there's a flapping in it... fabric flapping lazily, as if there's a wind.
But there isn't a wind.
The illusion remains, but it's all that can be seen. The glass is still very hazy.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:25 am
X sat up abruptly, something had woken her, wiping her eyes with her fingers, she reached down and unhooked Monkey's arm from around her waist so she could see better. A strange flapping noise brought her attention to the mirror she had just purchased. So it made noise too? X was as excited as she was curious, so she reached out and picked up the mirror, bringing it upright for better viewage.
There seems to be a wind blowing...in the mirror, X blinked as she looked around the room, confirming her thought that there wasn't a wind blowing in her room, not even the air conditioner was strong enough to cause flapping in the mirror.
Crossing her legs into an indian style, X set the mirror in her lap and peered down at it, trying her damndest to decipher what the illusion really was. Maybe if she tilted her head to the side she could see something? But it was no use, the image stayed just as hazy and unidentifiyable as before.
Okay this was weird, but for some reason X was more curious and transfixed then she was freaking out, which was a good thing since she didn't want to wake Monkey. And so X continued to gaze into the peculiar mirror, trying to decipher, and/or catch it in the act of making said flapping noise.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:40 am
The flapping fabric vanishes, the haze returns. But there's a shape now visable in the mirror, amungst the odd swirling patterns and shadows. The change from fabric to this seems to give the feeling that the child is in no rush, they're taking their time... are they waiting for something else?
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:04 am
While she was intently staring, the flapping and illusion dissappeared, leaving a hazy shape and curious swirled patterns and shadows, which she peered at for a moment before shivering and putting tht mirror back on the wood nightstand.
"Damn."
X mutter to herself as she got out of bed and maneuvered her way over to her dresser, tugging various clothes out before heading into her bathroom to take a quick shower. Cracking the door to help relieve some of the vast amounts of steam, X hopped in under the warm water which she had started, and took one of her quicker showers, getting out of the shower and getting dressed in no more than 10 minutes.
As she walked back out toweling her hair, she peered back over to the mirror, which hadn't changed since her leaving. Sighing, she adjusted her leather pants as she turned the light on by the nightstand, watching as Monkey turned over to avoid its brightness. Once again she sighed, and turned the light off. Maybe they should go somewhere where they wouldn't bother him and his sleep?
Picking up the mirror, she considered what the shop owner had told her about these mirrors, that they had children in them. Children that took on traits of the people they 'saw' and therefore reflected. 'Hmm...' X thought to herself as the made her way down to the kitchen with the mirror.
"I'd offer you cheesecake, but mirrors don't tend to eat so I'm out an idea there, and it's not like we can have a conversation, since you can't respond to anything I say. Believe me, those aren't fun conversations."
They finally had reached the kitchen, where she immediately set the mirror down on the counter and then made a beeline for the fridge, and cheesecake. After a bit of shuffling and movement with her rump in the air and her torso burried in the fridge, an 'ah HA!' was heard followed by X standing up very quickly. Crack! The back of X's head came in violent contact with the top freezer door, eliciting a growl and a string of flowery words from X.
"God damn ******** piece of s**t! Failure of a freezer..."
As she cursed she rubbed the back of her head and brandished a piece of cheesecake on a plate in the other, settling with angrily kicking the door on the fridge closed.
"And stay shut!"
A triumphant stare and chin raise followed that comment, as she turned around to begin eating her cheesecake. Nothing was going to interrupt her cheesecake time.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:49 pm
While X was having an arguement with the door, the mirror's surface cleared. Amused, maybe? Whatever it was thinking, the image changed with it, into yet another set of patturns that were swirling. This time though, there was the clear outline of someone moving around.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:20 pm
Setting the cheesecake down onto the counter next to the clearer mirror, she pulled out a fork from the drawer. Wait, the clearer mirror? X's eyes opened wide as she pulled the mirror closer to her, and she growled softly because even though the image was no longer hazy, X still couldn't make it out when it was three inches in front of her. Setting the mirror back down, she threw her arms into the air in frustration.
"Stop toying with me! ...I'm confused enough."
Her voice dropped and she whined softly as she said the second sentence.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:21 pm
 All of a sudden, the swirling stopped. It drained out of each location in which a gem was, drawn away and leaving the glass clear and haze free. The girl who was moving around in the screen before had gone, but it didn't take long for a face to suddenly appear in it. A dark haired girl with eyes the same color as X's eyes, looking at X's cheesecake.
Behind her, the very same six year old girl stood, dressing herself as she wandered over. You only needed to look at her once to know that she was very confidant in herself...
"Cheesecake?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:55 pm
"My cheesecake, but yes cheesecake... would you like me to get you a..."
Before X could even finish her sentence, Zanna had solidly climbed up onto the counter, plucked the fork from X's hand, and began to eat the cheesecake. X's cheesecake. When X trailed off and didn't finish her sentence, Zanna looked up at her and shot X an innocent smile and spoke right before she took her first bite.
"You can fight the door again, you apparently won last time.... Mmmm"
Finally taking that bit, Zanna let out a happy little moan, causing X to twitch yet again, anything but her cheesecake. Sighing, X redug around in the fridge, and without smacking her head, she came back with another piece of cheesecake.
"You like it I take?" X asked as she settled down next to the girl.
Zanna just shoved another forkfull in her mouth and smiled with her eyes, which made X feel like she was looking into a mirror, those eyes were hers. Hmm, but those markings weren't hers.
"I like your...tattoos?" X smiled, unsure of whether they were tattoos or birthmarks, considering she wasn't 'born' persay.
The young simulacra gave X a curious, almost dry, look when X mentioned 'tattoos', momentarily stopping her cheesecake devouring to respond to X. "They're not tattoos, they're mine, no one gave me them; they're better than yours..." With that comment Zanna ate another bite of cheesecake.
X opened her mouth to speak, but decided against it for the moment, all she had wanted was some cheesecake and less confusion, but now she had a bump on the back of her head, cheesecake, and was even more confused than before. This will... be interesting.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:30 am
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:34 pm
X's Journal
After my rude, yet interesting, awakening this morning, I ate while Zanna discovered Slush, much to his delight. Slush was always one for free snuggles, and Zanna apparently really liked to play with Slush, and was even more amazed that he could talk. After my breakfasty lunch, Slush suggested we go to the orchard and play, and so I grabbed some sunscreen, water, and a large basket in case we wanted to bring stuff back in (or if Slush fell asleep in it.)
As soon as we started walking towards the orchard, Zanna's eyes lit up and were about as wide as saucers... and then she took off sprinting towards the nearest tree. Not only is my child a pole dancer, but she's a ******** monkey as well. Scared the bageezus out of me the way she hauled herself up to the top end of the apple tree she had choosen. I'm surprised the sheer height of it all wasn't scaring her as well, but there she sat, perched up there, waving and eating a fresh apple. Luckily when I finally coaxed her down to help me pick other fruit, she brought some of the yummiest apples from the top.
Unfortunately, even after such a long day, the little springboard still had oodles of energy in her and began promptly climbing all over the couch. That's when I introduced her to the TV, Gods bless the inventor of the television. I gave her the remote and told her if she had any questions to ask me about it. Zanna flipped around with the flicker for a while, most of the channels seemingly not interesting enough for her, until she hit the discovery channel, where a show about dinosaurs was airing. In fact it's a marathon that's still going on right now, and she has another question so I will end this here.
Rarr, T-Rex. ^_^
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:39 am
Xannyia had decided it was about time she took Sarria to visit the shop again, so she would have a chance to meet others like herself. It had to be better than being cooped up in her house all day without any friends. Before entering the shop all the way, she peeked around to see if anyone was there at the moment, "Hello?"
Sarria was holding her hand, standing at the woman's side. She however, didn't seem to want to wait and just sort of dragged Xannyia into the shop, looking around at the place curiously.
"But I want to play monkey." Zanna said with a slight whine to her voice as she tugged X in the opposited direction from the shop.
X just grinned and patted her shoulder, being strong enough as a vampire not to get dragged away by a six year old girl, no matter how stubborn. Instead X suggested something else that may entice the little girl. "Howsabout we play 'piggy'?"
Zanna's eyes lit up and she immediately and skillfully climbed up onto X's shoulders, where she perched herself like a queen riding in a parade. Ha, now X was getting what she wanted for once since Zanna had manifested, and this caused a smirk to dance on her lips as they entered the shop. And Zanna was the first to spot the newcomers, along with a girl that seemed her age. A girl! The only girl she ever got to play with was her mum X, the rest of the family consited of boys and a ghost.
"Hullo!" She waved and smiled before hopping off of X's shoulders, much to X's protest and worry, and landed on her feet, moving quickly over to the other girl. "I'm Zanna, who are you?"
Xannyia had been trying to tell the girl something, but found she was 'interrupted' by the newcomers. She gave X a friendly smile after watching Sarria take a few steps forward as well to meet the new girl.
"I'm Sarria." She told her; giving a quick smile to Zanna. Her whole face had seemed to light up upon seeing another girl far closer to her age than Xannyia. "It nice t..." She cut herself off, and corrected herself, "It is nice to meet you!" The little four year old held out her hand to shake Zanna's as she had seen other grown-ups do quite often.
Zanna brushed past handshake and instead gave Sarria a bear hug like Slush had loved so much, the six year old knew that this was how to do it, not the arm out way. Zanna had also seen X kiss Monkey in greeting as well before, but that was only between male and female, so she didn't do that.
"You wear lots of clothes....don't you get hot?"
X chuckled to herself since Zanna had apparently gotten the skimpy dressing side of her from her 'Mum'. Whoopsies. It was okay with her only because Zanna seemed so confident. Introducing herself to the older of the two, X smiled and nodded.
"I'm X, Ms. Monkey's 'mother' it seems."
The girl looked close to horrified as she was given a big hug. She had managed to turn her head just enough to look at Xannyia, with a look on her face that said, 'help me.' Her arm had remained out still, but eventually went to wrap around the other girl in a hug. It wasn't much of a hug though, considering her other arm was still at her side.
"Why did you do that?" She half-demanded to know why she had been hugged. "And no, I do not get hot. See I have short shirt!" She pointed to the sleeves of her shirt underneath her robe like dress. What she had meant to say, was 'short sleeved shirt'. "Why don't you have lots of clothes like me?" She asked in return, also wondering why this other girl didn't dress as she did.
"Hi." Xannyia gave a nod, "My name's Xannyia, and I'd be Sarria's 'mother.' You've got a cute little girl."
"Cute but deadly." X responded as she tried to stifle a laugh from what was going on between the two simulacra, giving Xannyia a smile with her eyes, X returned her attention down to the two again, finding this all very entertaining.
"Because hugs feel good, and it's better way to say 'hi' then what you did." Zanna responded matter-of-factly. Damn this girl sucked at giving hugs, she liked Slush's and his reaction much, much better. Smiling to herself, Zanna smoothed out her wrap around skirt before responding to this other girl.
"Because I don't need 'lots of clothes' and I look sexy like this."
X's eyes went wide with Zanna's use of 'sexy', and she had a feeling that she was the one that the girl picked this up from. Another whoopsies.
Xannyia bit her lower lip and moved one of her hands to cover her mouth to hide the smile forming on her face. "A very cute girl." She commented from behind her hand.
The girl's eyes widened as if Zanna had just said the most horrible thing in the world. She thought that by Zanna saying she looked sexy like that, was just another way of calling herself stupid. What she wanted to know, was why anyone would call themselves that. Eventually she frowned a bit in a curious fashion, deciding that perhaps that wasn't what that meant, because the other girl didn't seem to act like she had just instulted herself. "What does 'sexy' mean?"
"Sexy is..." Zanna thought back to the context in which she had heard X use the word 'sexy' to describe something, or maybe it was Monkey she had heard it from? Yes! It was something her dad had used when he came up behind X, back when she was watching from the mirror. So Zanna finished her sentence in a very sure tone, with a nod as well. "...means beautiful and wanted."
X was surprised at how the girl actually defined the word without having to look it up. "Smart too it seems..." She spoke to Xannyia quietly, her eyes somewhat wide still.
Sarria turned her head off to the side as she listened to Zanna's defintion. She would remember this word and use it later. She looked back at Xannyia to see if she was 'proud' that she had learned a new word. All she saw was Xannyia shaking her head slowly. Turning back to Zanna she "Oh. So it is a good word then? It means nice things."
Xannyia had taken her hand down from her mouth and gave a nod to X, "It appears that way. However, now I'm going to have to watch and make sure Sarria doesn't use that word...until she's older." She laughed.
"Heh, I find it amusing... and as long as she uses it in the right context..." X shrugged, she was the same with swearing, as long as you knew when and where to do it, or you knew about the consequences cursing would bring, it was okay.
"Yep." Zanna was proud too, she was spreading her way to other children, and that made her happy because her way was right. As her eyes scanned the room for something to climb, Zanna asked the younger girl another question, being quite curious. "What do you do for fun?"
]"For fun?" Sarria repeated the question as she thought about an answer. "I like to play games." She wasn't sure what kind of games to say, since she hadn't really played any sort of games with Xannyia since her release. Leaving her answer at that, she asked Zanna the same question in hopes of finding out the names of a few games, or different ways to have fun, "What do you like to do?"
Xannyia gave a small nod, "I suppose, but Sarria's only four, and if she's like every other four year old, she's bound to use it in the wrong way, or at the wrong time." After looking at her watch, Xannyia started moving toward Sarria to pick her up, "Come on, we've got to go. It was nice meeting you both."
Sarria looked at Zanna and waved sadly. "Maybe we play together sometime?" She asked as she was picked up and carried off, "Bye bye."
Zanna was about to say something when the girl was swept away by the older woman, how dare she interrupt their conversation? But she liked the idea of playing again with a girl, so Zanna pouted after nodding in agreement and proceeded to climp atop of X again, glaring at Xannyia as they walked out.
X just waved goodbye and nodded to Xannyia and her daughter, allowing Z to climb her as she reached in her bag and pulled out a banana, offering it to the simulacra, who grabbed it and happily began to eat it. She particularly liked bananas, too bad X didn't have any in her garden.
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:39 am
Reserved for Slush's disappearance. >.>;;
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:36 pm
X's Journal Bow to me, I have somehow found a way to entertain Zanna without the attendance of Slush, who is still at Isto's Birthday bash. He's been hiding from her for a little under a week and she's been getting overly bored and hyper, a bad combination for her in my opinion. A good combination if I ever want more headaches though. Anyways back to my discovery... MARKERS!! Holy bajeezus she's in love with drawing, not as much as climbing, but that's what she's been doing up in the tops of the trees. Which reminds me, I must go off and get her some type of backpack so she doesn't die while carrying this stuff up there.
Back to Slush, it does have something to do with growing, but I don't think he wants Zanna to find out quite yet. And he's been spending oh so much time with his boyfriend Isto, an older SM of Moo's. Which reminds me... must make a mental note to take some pictures of them together, cute adorable pictures of meh chillins. ninja
Aah, Zanna's back with her latest masterpieces, so I must go look and refridgatize them.
-Rexxor
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:58 pm
The Fridge ninja ((Will add descripts later.))  
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:29 pm
It was the end of a rainy day, and you step outside for just a moment to see if the rain had finally let up. Just as you do so, you notice a small package carefully wrapped in plastic to keep the rain out, sitting on your door step. You recognize the familiar "Through the Looking Glass" stationary, on which is written:
Note in Emme's round print Dear X and Zanna, I was watching the shop today when Sao Kasai came by to drop off these adorable little dolls! She made one for each of the children. Despite the weather, I couldnt' wait to give them out! I wrapped up Zanna's Doll very carefully. Enjoy! -emme 
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