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 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:03 am
Arae's cheeks tint pinkish with a soft blush as she puts a drop of hot water into each cup from a tap and adds a pair of tea leaves to each little vessel to steep. "I am most honored, Aleric. And what a lovely bloom that is! I've not seen a bloom in so long, I'd forgotten how pretty they can be. Have you a name for it yet?" She looked at the blossom admiringly.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:09 am
"Actually..." He said. "I know that Ice has something in mind for her. But she has yet to tell any of us what it is. I think she came up with it yesterday when we were seeing what type of music she liked." He said. "I must admit, even I didn't know Ice had so many... varied CD's."
He motioned forward. "Would you like to touch her? So far she has quite enjoyed physical contact, if what my empathy says is correct."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:24 am
Arae looked thrilled at the prospect of touching the bloom, and she set the cup of tea in front of Aleric and rounded the bar to sit beside him. "I would love to. I''ve always found a bloom to be comforting. Though Sajhiri said that as a bloom Averno was anything but." She reached out a tentative hand to touch the red and black petals carefully.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:34 am
"She's been wonderful." Aleric said softly, smiling as he watched Arae touch her. "We have two boys, they're feien sized but they aren't feien, in fact one's part wolf, the other part skunk... well, thay've been doing everything they can to make sure she's comfortable. They even helped me set up a large fishbowl with dirt and rocks for her. Since she's an earth element."
He didn't mention Silva's reaction. He already had a good idea of what she would say.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:39 am
"They sound like very thoughtful boys indeed. And earth elements are so lovely and well...stable." She chuckled. "I fear as an air element I might come across a bit flighty." She continued to pet the bloom gently, casting her eyes sidelong in a glance at the other ancient.
"What about your sibling...the less than...cordial one?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:46 am
He really should have seen that coming...
For a second he hesitated, reaching out to touch the very happy bloom for a moment as he thought of the proper reply. "Silva... feels that he would not be a good influence on the bloom. So he's leaving the raising of the child to me. But I can't help but think she might be a... calming influence on him if he came to care for her."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:48 am
"Well if half the things Averno has said to me about Silva are true, I must say I'm a touch relieved that he's being hands off with this lovely bloom. I think you will do a splendid job raising the feien within, Aleric. I've thought about being a mother someday myself..."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:09 am
"Surprisingly enough he's the one that raised Nick and Nack." Aleric told her. "The Silva we know and the Silva known by others is not the same." There he went, defending his brother again. He shook his head. "But I have no fear of her growing up happily. Whether he interferes or not."
He paused at her statement. "The breeding system has changed somewhat. We have to leave Gaia in order to breed, and then we have little control over who it is with. But I feel it is necessary for me to assist... given that I have genes from the past." He paused. She was an ancient as well. "But that is for you to decide."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:15 am
Arae nods her head slowly, continuing her petting. "yes I've read the mandates, though they make me sad in that respect. I would love to raise a bloom of my own. But I've offered my genes to the cause to propagate the species. It just saddens me that I may never see or know my own blooms."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:18 am
"We can only hope that if we are... borrowed for that purpose, that one of the blooms we produce comes back to Gaia." He said simply. His hand stayed on the bloom in front of him. "Or that if they go to the Fleet that they are as well loved as those we bring here will be."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:28 am
Arae smiles softly at Aleric. "I suppose you are right. I wonder what would happen if they crafted a bloom from the genes of two ancients like ourselves?" She finally takes her hands off the bloom to take a sip of her tea.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:25 am
"I'm not sure." He replied thoughtfully. "It would be interesting to see." He wondered if the Fleet would even think of that, though. He reached for his own cup, taking a drink.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:01 pm
Arae went back to stroking the petals of the bloom. "Perhaps we could...suggest it to one of the personnel of the Fleet? I've yet to meet them. Perhaps we could even volunteer?" She winks at Aleric at that.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:19 pm
He paused, thinking of Hamada, then Antipov... and finally M. "I'm not sure that would do anything, actually. The new owners of the shop are quite... unique."
A techman, an ex-revolutionist, and (as Silva put so bluntly) a psychopath. "But I suppose we could ask. Next time I see one of them, that is." Unless it was M. Something told him not to ask M.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:34 pm
Arae smiled and sipped her tea some more. "That would be great, Aleric! Perhaps Sajhiri can aquire another bloom to bond with at some point and I can help raise it to get past this motherhood inclination."
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