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 Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:04 pm
The horned chick pounced on him and Harper couldn't decide in the brief moments following if he was full of glee or indignity. He settled on the latter when he made off with her binkie, DROOLING ON IT and so forth, getting all red in the face.
"MIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!" He screamed, flailing his arms at her. He glanced at Ashley who was checking out some clothes she thought were cute, and otherwise not paying attention. He gave a hmmpft.
Before anymore revenge could ensue, the bird chick was threatening him? Some semi-pointed object and slurred pirate speech, Harper responded to it all with a loud, wet raspberry in Riley's direction.
"MY BINKIE. GIVE ME." He yelled, then looked at Riley again and frowned. "Meanie."
Way to go pain association, Harper.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:58 pm
Katrina pulled up just outside the store, watching what might have been all-out combat, or may in fact have been play. Mouth slightly open, she watched the horned girl sprint away from some sort of engagement with a screaming young boy.
As she marveled at the complete uproar, her grip loosened just enough to give the boy the opening he needed. Squealing, he wriggled his hand out of her grasp and dove into the shop.
Katrina let loose with a string of loud curses, remembering only belatedly that most landlubbers didn’t favour their children being exposed to such language. She shouldered her way between adults and into the main chaos.
The child was lost amidsts the costumes.
“Boy!” Katrina called, and then realized that she needed to name it, so as not to lose face. “Melchizedek, come!”
The cat-child poked his face out from behind a rack of capes. What was a Melchizedek? He assumed from her expression that it was a him and returned almost immediately, clinging to the pirate’s leg.
Katrina grabbed him by the collar, ignored the ensuing yowl as she lifted him, and fastened her arms securely around him, casting about desperately for an adult to talk to.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:36 pm
Luckily, Katrina found immediate response and attention in someone who at least appeared to be an adult; Kova was certainly tall enough. Dragging the stroller with her, the lavendar-skinned woman smiled at Katrina and shook her head. "They're all over the place when they get going, aren't they?" she asked rhetorically. "Except my Delly. She's too little to join them all, really. She's so quiet, too. I think they'd eat her alive and that would be awful and," she paused and shared her smile with the sulking Mel, "your little one is adorable." She bent a bit to look him in the eye. "I like your tail."
Delilah looked up at them with a sort of vague comprehension. Then she turned back to refocus on the sudden war in the costume shop. After a moment, she squirmed half out of the stroller to snatch at a large, floppy-brimmed hat. With a grunt of effort, she threw it at the other children.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:50 pm
Manuela took her cue to take Riley's side, as her 'first mate' so to speak. She looked around cautiously, picking up a tricorn hat and a plastic sword to get into the scene. "Arrgh," she said pointedly, trying a little too hard, then broke out in giggles once more. This was fun, but eh, she just wasn't that good at make believe. At least not with pirates, she had definately not seen enough pirate movies to be realistic about it. Or not as the case may be.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:55 pm
The only movies she could usually see involved pirates and soldiers and aliens and such, since normally it was Mikael and Runeh she watched with. So she thought she made a pretty good pirate. Manny wasn't too bad, though pirates did not giggle. "Arrrr, I'm no meanie! I'm a pirate! Manny The Claw, make him walk the plank!" she said in a low growl, waving her plastic sword about. She had given her friend a nick name because well...all pirates had scary names.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:31 pm
Katrina looked over at the lavender-skinned woman, did a double take, and then looked around, bewildered. "I..." she looked back at the chaos of the shop, down at the brightly-coloured child in the stroller, and down at her own child.
Melchy blinked a few times at Kova when she complimented his tail, and bared his teeth in what Katrina hoped was a smile. She spoke quickly. “Thank you in his place; I’m not sure yet if it has a voice. He. The child, I mean.” She blushed a little bit, but plunged nobly onward. “I’ll admit, I’m not a parent at heart,” she said. She looked down at Delilah again, mouth twitching as the little girl threw a hat. “Endearing,” she said eventually, smiling briefly at Kova before something else caught her attention.
Melchy had been staring for quite some time, but it wasn’t until the ‘argh’ reached her ears that Katrina focused on the little pirates. Her lips twitched again, and she gigged. The giggle evolved into a full-out laugh, and she set Melchy down, pushing him toward the pirate girl.
“Arr, ye think ye’re pirates, do ye, little lasses?” she asked lightly, lapsing into the easy accent favoured by many of her crew. Her hand went to her sword immediately, and she almost regretted eschewing her frock coat. She got the feeling the little girl would have liked it.
Melchy approached Riley and Manuela slowly, putting his head to one side and watching the girls solemnly.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:41 pm
Delilah glanced up at her mother and Katrina and then set her hands on the bar of her stroller and shook it. The others looked like they were having fun and there was something kind of sparkly just behind the boy with the two-color hair that she suddenly, deeply desired. Laughing, Kova bent and tugged her child from the stroller. "Is that how pirates around here talk?" she asked. "That's strange. We never talked like that. Then again, Cap'n Chota ma'am made us all use a common langauge or we would've ended up in a black hole when Roxie told the pilot to go left an' he went right so it's all good and, oops, there you go." Setting Delilah on the ground, Kova patted her backside when she toppled forward onto hands and knees.
Delilah spared an unreadable glance at the adults and then began the long crawl towards the shiny. Passing Mel, she paused to consider his tail before dismissing it and continuing onwards only to pause again and reach for Manuela's tail instead.
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