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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:26 pm
Magic may be handy, but it always came with a price. What exactly that was, Tara never said but the least of it was energy exhaustion. The mage studied the hallway intently. Finally Tara found a space she could decide on. Instead of one bathroom, like Niki had merely asked for, Tara drew in two. Five people and only two bathrooms? And at least three of them girls. Right... Taking a deep breath Tara moved to the center of the hallway. Taking the three stones from her pocket she placed one at each new doorway, standing at the last one herself.
Aysel gestured at the trees, knowing how much Ala loved to climb. "We could make a tree house?" she suggested. Not that they had wood or anything to build with.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:37 pm
Niki watched silently from behind Tara. Hey, no complaints from her on any extras. Three bathrooms just might be a smart idea for this household. They would surely need all those!
Ala glanced at the trees. "Okay..." She wasn't sure how they'd make a tree house without any supplies, but maybe Aysel had an idea. Or, even better, maybe Aysel's mom had taught the girl some magic and Aysel was going to show her some and make a tree house!
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:06 pm
Aysel didn't have an idea... at first. The luna moth stared at the tree's for a moment before remembering something she had read. "A fort!" she exclaimed. In one of Babysitter's books they had made a fort out pillows and blankets and stuff. "Maybe we can use sheets and pillows and stuff?" Aysel said excitedly. "We can streach them between branches and tied them down." The luna moth beamed at her friend.
Tara breathed deep, grounding herself. While she had waited on Aysel, the woman had memorized the verbal and physical components of the spell. "Erijte Riuhga Djaoi Oire Gha Skdg". The chalk suddenly began to glow, tracing patterns, first on flat walls then deeper into new spaces. Rooms began to take shape, mesh then skin. Furniture grew and window's opened up.
It was nearing the end of the spell when trouble started. The crystals, which had been glowing the same color, began to flicker and die. One by one the winked out. Then Tara began to waver. Locked into the spell as she was the mage barely noticed anything. Eventually the spell drained even her constant illusion of it's strength. Like the crystals, it too flickered and died. Stealing the last bit of energy it found, the spell finally ran it's course.
Blue-grey skinned, nearly glowing green eyes, pointed ears. Yup, the illusion of humanity was gone. But unlike the other times Tara removed her locket, the spell was completely gone. As the mage came out of her trance, she went to take a deep breath. And choked. Gasping Tara stumbled backwards, clutching her throat.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:16 pm
Nikiana watched as the rooms slowly began to appear before her eyes. Sighing, she glanced over at her friend, who seemed to be using quite a bit of energy in this spell. Maybe she should get some water for her friend to drink when she was finished? Niki turned and headed towards the kitchen, grabbing a glass and getting some ice water prepared for Tara. It was a rather large job, for sure, so she wouldn't be surprised if Tara needed something to eat as well. That was what mages did to restore their energy, right? Heck if she'd know!
Ala grinned. "Sure!" She darted into the doors that led to her room and grabbed up her blanket off her hammock and her pillow (she also stole a few from Bob's 'nest'). With her arms loaded, she went back outside. "Here we go!"
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:56 pm
Tara gasped a final breath.. and then things went a little odd. The body dissapeared and then a few moments later.. She returned. Standing in the same hallway, the mage blinked. Other than a slight headache and a new necklace, everything seemed to be the same.
Rather uncertainly the mage moved to pick up the now empty stones, pocketing them. Turning around, Tara began to search for Nikiana.
Aysel grabbed a blanket in her lower hands, and began to climb up the tree, much harder to do with only one set of hands. Coming to the first set of branches, the luna moth took a break, waiting for 'La.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:08 pm
Niki was carrying the glass of ice water back into the hallway. She was a bit startled to almost run into Tara as she turned the corner from the kitchen into the hallway. She grinned at her friend. "Here, thought yo-" The woman paused, her eyes catching sight of the necklace Tara was wearing. That... was most definately new. As in, her friend had not been wearing that just a few seconds ago.
Nikiana felt that something was just a bit... familiar... with that necklace. She thought for a moment, then suddenly grinned from ear to ear before bursting out laughing. The woman started to laugh so hard, she was in danger of cracking a rib or two. "Th-th-they... g-got you t-too, eh?" Niki managed in her fit of laughter, gesturing with her free hand at Tara's necklace, then pulling out her own from under her tshirt.
Ala grinned, taking a moment to fashion a sort of belt with one of the blankets and try to tie the pillows and blankets to her midsection before climbing up after Aysel. She paused where the moth girl had stopped. "Will this work?" She asked, wondering if they'd have to go higher.
Bob gave a grunt as he recognized some of those pillows and blankets as his own, then plopped down to watch the two girls in the tree.
Reign played with one of her daggers, tossing it up into the air with enough of a twirl on it to catch it by the handle once again. It'd be neat if she could learn how to juggle these!
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:15 pm
"Shut up. At least I don't have twins," the mage snapped covering her relic with a hand. "The rooms are done," she continued. Neatly she stole the glass from Niki, half expecting her friend to collapse from laughter.
With a frown Aysel shrugged. "I don't know... I've never done this 'efore." There did seem to be a few other branches nearby that they could tie the blankets to. Peering at the higher branches the luna moth considered it carefully. "We can't go too high.." She turned to her friend, lettting the climber be the expert.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:22 pm
That made Niki's laughter at least die down some. It sobered the woman up... a touch, at least. True, she was stuck with twins, but at least Tara had gotten a kid as well. That would make this a little better. She was glad that Tara had taken the glass as it took her a bit longer to recover. Finally, wiping tears away from her eyes, the woman straightened up. "Do you need anything else?"
Ala looked up as well. "True..." She knew that up higher, the branches weren't as strong. "This will be fine." She nodded, slapping the branch they were currently sitting on.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:44 am
Aysel nodded and shook out the blanket she carried up. Leading forward she began to tie the the blanket around the branch, balancing herself with her lower pair of arms. With one (messy and very weak) knot tied the girl tried to toss the other end of the blanket towards Ala.
"Catch!" she called, swinging the blanket back and forth. The first throw landed far too short though. With a frown Aysel tried again, actually getting within catching reach this time.
Tara grumbled to herself for a few moments before nodding, "A good way to break it to Aysel? Oh.. and don't tell her what exactly happened before I got this child." The mage threw a warning look at her friend, despite the fact that she was sure Niki knew what she was talking about. Telling Aysel she had died...and then came back would probably freak the girl out, just a little.
Swallowing her painkillers, the mage slipped past Niki to put her glass in the sink.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:31 pm
Ala grabbed for the first swing that fell too short. She shifted herself back onto the branch and managed to catch the second attempt. "Got it!" She tied it to the branch she was sitting on. The knot was a bit tighter than Aysel's, but this wasn't a sailor's knot or anything.
Niki gulped and nodded. She hadn't told her own girls about the part of her dying to get the twins. There were some things that a child just didn't need to know. "Well, uh... I just told Ala and Reign. Considering I don't exactly get a lot of time to come up with a better way... They did tell you that the kid'll be arriving in two days, right?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:42 pm
Scooting down along the branch, Aysel took the last corner on her side with her. It ended up streaching out to make an odd sort of unstable floor. The girl gestured for Ala to do the same. "Then maybe we take another one and make a roof?" the luna moth suggested. She pressed down a little on the blanket, testing it.
Tara shook her head, taking a seat at the kitchen table. "Just that it would be soon. And that it's the God of Illusions."
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:19 pm
Ala scooted down her branch as well, stretching her end of the blanket out. She nodded at Aysel's suggestion as she worked on trying to tie her other corner to the branch. It was a bit harder to do than the first one, but she managed.
She waved one of the blankets she was holding. "We can use this one." And the koala girl then started to climb up a few branches, trying to gauge where the roof should be.
Niki sighed and took a seat as well. "God of Illusions, eh? At least you know what your kid'll be doing later. I don't know what my two are supposed to be." She pulled the black and white pendant out and sat, staring at it. What could it be? Whatever it was, she had a feeling it wouldn't be the Goddess of Little Pink Ponies or something easy like that.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:32 pm
After letting 'La climb up farther, Aysel slowly began to follow. She wasn't nearly as fast or as sure at climbing as her friend but the cacoon and extra pair of arms helped a lot. After she was equal with her 'cousin', Aysel wrapped her legs and lower arms around the tree tightly. "This high enough?" the girl queried.
Tara stared at the pendant and shrugged. "Light and Dark? Women and Men? Order and Chaos? Who knows. Maybe white stands for...Spring and black for Winter. It's not like their even from this universe." That was the hard thing. If they were from here then it would be so much easier to understand the children when they came. As a matter of fact, Tara didn't even know if they would remember anything or not. What an annoying situation.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:39 pm
Ala thought for a moment. "Yeah, I think this'll be high enough." The koala girl tied a corner to the branch, then lowered the blanket some, swinging it to get it over to her 'cousin'.
Meanwhile, Bob watched the two girls curiously. What were they doing with his blankets? They had better give them back...
Niki shrugged as well, letting the pendant drop. "It could be anything, really. Day and Night. Good and Evil. Peanut butter and jelly." The woman glanced at her friend to see if she'd gotten a grin out of the last one.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:43 pm
Aysel managed to grab the blanket on the first swing, nearly loosing her grip. Uttering a small yelp the girl clung to the thick branches for a few moments. Regaining her nerve, she tied her corner to the branch. "Are we done?" she asked, impatient to test out their 'fort' idea.
"Fluffy pink bears and dead warriors." Tara replied trying to stifle the grin. "Though I do think peanut butter and jelly would be a pain to live with. What if they made you eat nothing else." Her face was nearly straight but a laugh lay hidden in the woman's green eyes.
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