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 Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:54 am
Len nibbled at her lip in thought. Obviously this was a touchy subject though she wasn't sure why. She shrugged, feathers clattering.
"I doubt it's that big a deal, I wouldn't ever care," she said, plucking one out and using it to clean under her sharp nails.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:00 am
"Eight."
And he knew that was all he'd have to say to get a reaction.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:04 am
"Hnn, yeah, I wouldn't have guessed that. Dammit, I'm no good at it anymore," Len said, still picking at what she theorized was dirt under her nails.
The others hadn't reacted quite so calmly. Crow sputtered and then caught herself out of pure survival instinct. Ethan's head jerked up and swung from Hellis to Björn, deeply surprised. And Julian, expression shocked at first, was visibly trying to reason out how not to make a big deal out of the situation when someone able to snap his spine in two was involved.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:07 am
Björn suddenly looked like a child being chastised.
Liam's laughter grew worse and he toppled over, writhing in pain.
Hellis nervously fiddled with his hair.
"Um..." Rabid spluttered, "*****>
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:11 am
"I, well...um. Uh," Crow said, mumbling off into silence, glancing over at Liam. Well, at least he wasn't shocked senseless.
Ever ignorant to the bigger picture, Len glanced around with a brow arched.
"Hnn? What?"
Julian found he just couldn't say anything without stumbling and rambling like his sister. Ethan was still looking back and forth between Hellis and Björn, not looking so shocked anymore.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:14 am
Liam had stopped laughing aloud and started convulsing, lungs running out of air. A few moments more and he went limp, exhausted and giggling.
"Hey. I didn't know how old he was when--," Björn stopped. Probably not the best thing to say, "And anyway. You're legally an adult at 11 months."
Hellis sat up straight, puffed out his chest, and puts his hands on his hips.
"You're really not helping your case, dear."
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:20 am
Len gave a small giggle and nodded absently, as though that settled the whole issue.
"You okay down there?" Crow asked Liam dryly, easing out of her initial shock. Julian nudged the fallen man with his shoe, a small smile twisting on his lips.
"Still fresh," he said to his sister.
"Mm, excellent. Can't have him expiring of vindictive laughter."
Ethan, adjusting his glasses and sighing as the loose lens finally escaped to freedom, squinted and tried to find it.
"Well, it was...surprising," he said, scrabbling for the lens.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:23 am
"Eh."
Liam grabbed onto Julian's shoe with no intent of letting go, smiling manically.
Hellis flopped down suddenly, splayed out on his back. And then he cringed, flipped his hand over, and held out a mysterious glasses lens to Ethan.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:26 am
"Nngh! Hey, get off!" Julian protested, dragging his leg and effectively dragging Liam along for the ride. "NNNGH, Crow, call him off!"
"You should've poked him with a stick instead. I offer no aid."
"Bint!"
"Dork."
Ethan squinted, then smiled.
"There it is. Thanks, Hellis," he said, trying to force the lens back into the frame. It cracked with a sad little tink! sound. "Drat."
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:31 am
"Muaha. You have a bad case of eelfoot. You should totally get that checked out."
Hellis sat up at the sound of the cracking. Pooooor Ethan. Without asking permission, he snatched the glasses up, removed the cracked lens, pulled a small knife from intangibility, and snapped the lens in half carefully. He gave no sign that he had made a mistake, and started flailing his hand, as if trying to shake off water.
Ike looked on, a brow arched.
"That kid's bizarre."
"You don't know the half of it."
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:39 am
"Mm, I would. Tragic that it's fatal. Less than twenty seconds to live, starting right abooout...now. HGK!"
Crow laughed as Julian crumpled onto the floor, playing dead. Ethan, who'd tried to protest, just sighed.
"Uh...thanks, Hellis," he said, looking mournfully at the broken lens.
Len took this moment to finally ask her long-harbored question, now that she was sure Björn wasn't in a mood that involved glaring and being threatening.
"Hey, what's with the magic pull-crap-out-of-the-air trick? How'd he do that?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:43 am
Liam climbed atop Julian and sat on his stomach.
"Hey! That's MINE!"
"We can share. I get him everyone other Thursday."
"Deal."
Hellis turned and smiled to Ethan, and abruptly stopped shaking his hand. A small drop of clear fluid clung desperately to his fingertip. Using his other fingers, he pressed the lens back together, and then ran the slime over it. There was a sick crackling as it binded, and the lens appeared to be good as new.
Hellis popped said lens back into the frames and held it out to Ethan.
"Just don't think about what that is, and you'll be f--hm," Björn asked, turning to Lenore, "Oh. It's something to do with the Vavvian atmosphere." He pulled a lighter from intangibility to demonstrate.
"Here. Throw that feather into intangibility. Really. Don't think about it. Just have the want for it to go there."
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:53 am
""So the corpse gets no say in it, that's it then," Julian said, eyes still closed. "You won't have much fun though. We don't rot, we dissolve. Into, like...dust. So ha, I win."
"They can just reconstitute you. Y'know, put in a bowl, just add water, that kind of thing."
"Does that work?"
"Like I said....freak of science."
"You're just jealous of my amazing postmortem decomposition."
"You'd make the worst zombie love slave EVER. Crumblin' all over the place, they'd have to vacuum you off the bed."
"Jeeeealous."
Ethan made a small surprised sound and took his glasses, tapping the lens experimentally.
"Wow..."
Certain Björn was just yanking her leg, Len looked at the feather in her hand and pushed it away, as though shoving it into the air. As it disappeared she gave a shriek.
"HOLY ******** THAT'S AWESOME!"
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:55 am
"Liam already had a horde of zombie loveslaves. He doesn't need another one."
"EURGH. But they're cold and icky and smell of rotting flesh."
"In memory of Mier?"
"HAH. NO."
Björn snickered and then turned to Lenore, smiling.
"Now take it back out. You don't have to know where it is. Just get it." He tossed his lighter back into intangibility.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:03 am
"But I'd be the prettiest. Liam, I'm not good enough for you? You wound me."
Crow snorted and giggled, pressing her face into Rabid's shoulder.
"Gawwd my brother's a perv."
Julian gave a devious laugh.
"You have NO idea. I moonlight as a pimp."
"That ain't bein' pervy, though."
"Au contraire. I have a warehouse that doubles as a den of the worst iniquity."
Taking the feather out was trickier than stowing it away, but Len finally got it, slowly drawing the feather out of the air.
"Holy...this ain't gonna go away, right? I can use this."
"For what?" Ethan asked, curious.
"Hiding my firecrackers from Mum, for one...Ethan, Ethan, try it! I bet you can do it too now!"
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