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 Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:11 pm
Listening wide-eyed with newfound respect for the rainbow-spawn, River hugged Sebastian to his chest and nodded with profound understanding. At the offer, he jolted.
"REALLY?" he dithered, nearly toppling down the slide ramp. "Thass great! Then I wouldn't have to put up wi'h Zia!"
Zia, minding her own business on the bench, looked up, particularly stung.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:18 pm
Asimov shrugged one shoulder. "Mama Alice would prolly like you. She likes pretty things, an' I guess you're pretty 'nuff to make her happy." She looked him over critically, then nodded solemnly. "She'd like you, anyway." No accounting for taste; she thought that River could use some more color. Maybe some purple and red in his hair, some neat technicolor contacts. They could drop the panda in a dye vat and then it'd work. But that was just her opinion.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:24 pm
River preened at the unexpected compliment, throwing his navy hair back and allowing himself to smile.
"You're pretty, in a really rainbow kinda way," he said eventually, feeling one kindness deserved another. Once one got past the screaming pain of their retinas being scorched by the sheer color, the rainbow-spawn was rather interesting to look at. "What's your name, anyway?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:42 pm
She didn't know if that was an insult or a compliment, so she ignored it. "Asimov Lauderdale," she said. "An' who're you?" But bah. Like being rainbow was a bad thing. Which it wasn't. Bah.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:48 pm
"River Dayes," River said. "I live down the block. Zia has a small house, and, and it's like? This apartment? And it smells like cabbage all the time."
"It does NOT!"
"DOES TOO," River shouted back, wrinkling his nose. Hmph. Regarding Asimov with a critical eye, he nodded his approval once. He had no idea if he could manage to be friends with the rainbow-spawn, but she was at least a valuable source of knowledge Zia - in his own opinion, anyway - seemed to lack.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:55 pm
She shrugged. "I live... that way," she said, pointing vaguely to the left. "I don't really know. But my house always smells like flowers and coffee, which isn't really so cool all the time." River's mom was weird. The rainbow-spawn sent a stiff glare her way, wrinkling her nose for extra effect. "Bah," she said, huffing and crossing her arms, then looking away from Zia.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:18 pm
"I like flowers," River said under his breath, looking askance from Zia to Asimov. How would Not-Mama respond to the rainbow-spawn's terrifying staring?
Zia, mouth pushed to one side, fiddled with her lip ring and wondered if Asimov was planning on shooting laser beams of death out of her eyes. She rather hoped not.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:20 pm
No, Asimov wasn't planning on that. Yet. She still had to get those installed. "So you're a girl?" She made a funny gasping noise and looked around the park. "Bah. Flowers are for Mama Alice to wibble over and Mama Aurelius to stomp with her Boots of Stomping +More Than I Can Count." Actually, she didn't know what Mama Aurelius did with the flowers that she said she stomped on. It wasn't stomping, though, because stomping involved feet and what Mama Aurelius was doing had knives. Hmm.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:29 am
River frowned delicately, blushing slightly.
"I'm not a girl," he said defensively. "Boys can like flowers too. Besides, there's...there's flowers that eat bugs. And people!"
Not that "Little Shop of Horror" gave much accurate insight into botany, but River went with what he knew. Besides, Zia happened to love venus flytraps and pitcher plants. Maybe he would give rainbow-spawn one and win her respect for the carnivorous blooms of the plant world.
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