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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:56 pm
(( Compiled Shop RP from January 30 )) TarnishedHalo Val hadn't been to the shop to meet new people in a while and she'd heard that there were many new comers she should meet. She'd enjoyed her holiday craftiness and also thought she might find more people to make things for.. or she could collect materials to use.
The juvenile feien hovered into the shop with her hands clasped behind her back. Her eyes were wide and attentive as usual and she wore the usual calm smile. Her tiny gold earrings jingled slightly as she craned her head to see all that were currently in the shop.
WOW.
Quite a few! Valora Voldemort A darkness feien entered the shop curiously, after she had not returned in quite some time. Last had been in hopes of seeing Arith, but that did not occur and she doubted it would this time. However, this could be good since she was on a mission. Rislin had disappeared sometime mid-day yesterday and did not return. In worry the young juvenile might be in trouble, Semella had convinced Shux that they should go in search of her, because after all, she was still so small.
'How do we know that she's here? Honestly, she's getting on my last nerve.' Shux ranted more to herself. The time feien's behaviour counteracted her own feelings so often that she began to wonder if she should even keep contact with the young feien.
Semella frowned after following her companion into the shop. She was more sympathetic to Rislin's behaviour, even though she herself could not remember being a juvenile at all. With a clawed finger twisting a bit of violet hair she spoke: 'Hisa, you need to work out these issues you have with Rizzy. A rift in the household will only being more disasters later.' Shiro Ookami Patience heard talking, and turned. There was a few more feiens enterering the shop. Today was such a good day. One of the feiens looked familiar, but she coulnd't tell. She had meet Shux before, but never saw her aftr she had grown up. Patience turned and greeted the new people entering." Hello all. Nice Night we are having." karma_k Talon's yellow eyes crawled over the slight assortment of weaponry the shop had to offer. There were more rapiers just like the one he'd had in a variety of colors, bee stingers, pebbles, a spear...but none of them struck a chord in him....the spear seemed like a better bet than the rapier since it had much more room to grip it (and with his strange finger placement, that was a definite plus), but he imagined his lack of speed would make weilding it a clumsy operation at best.
He scooped up one of the pebbles from a box on the counter and hefted it in his palm a few times, testing its weight. He imagined he could likely throw one a great distance if he tried with the force he could put behind it. The problem with pebbles, though, was once you threw one, it was lost and you were left without a weapon.
Instead, he narrowed his eyes, his hand enveloping itself in a white glow as the pebble cupped in his palm began to sag and grow soft. Idly, he began to fashion the pebble into a conical point, much like the bee stingers, just to see if he was able.
Hearing a faint but rather noticeable jingling, he looked briefly over his shoulder at the newcomer and then back to the case again. No one he recognized.
In turning back, he entirely missed Semella and Shux's arrival. Rynn Ianios looked up from the bowl which in rested Leafy when he heard two new voices. More and more feien seemed to be heading in. He smirked. "Greetings!" he called out to all the newcomers. He looked them all over, trying to remember if he had met all of these. Honestly, he couldn't recall. Valora Voldemort Shux turned her attention to the feien who had greeted herself and Semella. The markings were familiar. 'Hello. Quite indeed a lovely evening.' The closer she walked to the feien, the more she realized where she had seen her. 'Patience?' She began laughing, considering the last time they had their incounter, Shux still had a fear of crowds.
Semella followed closely, but only smiled softly. karma_k Talon cringed a bit at Ian's shout of greetings and looked silently in his direction, lowering the white shroud his wings had been providing him. Something about the green feien stirred recognition in him but...for the life of him, he couldn't place it.
If he'd met him, it had been long ago, back when he was a child and used to frequent the shop much more. He...
And then it clicked. Oh yes....Ianios, often accompanied by Aria, the first two feien he'd ever met. Though, Ian had been a child last he'd seen him....which was forever ago.
He nodded in greeting to the blue-eyed feien and remained where he was. Merging had made him noticeably more polite in the presense of others, but it still hadn't done much for his social skills Shiro Ookami The other adult feien aprouching her was laughing, this confused Patience very much. She was trying to figure out who this was. Obviously she knew who she was. Then again Patience had not met many Feiens, so it didn't take to long to remember the darker feien." Shux? Is that you? You certainly have grown up. Nice to see you again, but why are you laughing?" TarnishedHalo Val saw Ian and smiled, waving her hand a bit. She hovered over to his place and stopped beside him. "Hello Ian. I have not seen you in a while. Of course I was in no position to see you as I was nowhere that you would be, but that is besides the point. How do you find yourself these days? Of course I meant in the sense of how you are feeling and the like.. not as if you would be missing....."
She paused when she realized she had babbled. She looked at the others and only noticed Semella whom she knew. "Hello Semella! We met once. Do you remember me?" Valora Voldemort The darkness feien's laughter had quieted down as she began to explain herself. 'Just memories really. I haven't been to the shop much since I was a youth.'
'Cause of me and Rizzy no doubt.' Semella interupted, but quieted herself after.
Shux frowned at the anicent for being inconsiderate. 'As I was saying...When I first met you, you were yelling your head off at Tosten, I believe for scaring the wits out of me. So much different now from then.' She sighed at the thoughts of it all. With a small grin, realization of her own rudeness sunk in. 'Oh, I must appologize. This is Semella. She is a flatmate of mine.'
Reaching a clawed hand to shake, the anicent spoke: 'Evening.' Rynn Ian waved to Talon, then smiled when he saw Val. " Hey Val! I'm doing great, yourself?" He smirked when her attention was taken by the anicent. That one was an interesting one. He looked to Leafy, smiling. "You'll get to enjoy this one day as well," he whispered, smiling, touching the leaf. Shiro Ookami A grin played slowly, as if crawling, across Patience face as she recalled the scene. The she too laughed." I see your point. It's good that your not so shy anymore. Meeting people is good. I actually met alot of feiens just today. It's been a good day. I first Met Hitomi, then Ian came along, we ran into a rather strange lady who was the new owner of one of Ian's breeding, Aparently a spikey bloom, And I also met the owner of the leaf bloom sitting here. Now you guys come in and there are more people to meet still. Today has been a busy but good day. I never meet so many Feien in one day.Patience said to Shux. She also took a bow towards Semella as a greeting." Hello, my name is Patience." She said it loud enough that even the feien on the high counter could hear her, but not loud to seem she was yelling. Just loud enough. karma_k As more feien arrived, Talon realized just how far out of the loop he'd been. Aside from Ian, he wasn't sure he recognized any of these feien...
Well, that's what he got for essentially living under a rock, wasn't it? He hesitated a moment more and then hovered toward the others. He clearly wasn't going to find what he was looking for here, and wasn't especially inclined to go home just yet.
Landing a short distance away from the throng of conversing feien, he stood by with intent to observe. It didn't occur to him that the one nearest to him was his long-ago declared mortal enemy. Then again, Shux hadn't been taller than him last he'd seen her either. Valora Voldemort Semella's ears twitched as she heard her name be called. She had not know many feiens herself, so she was curious to see which one of the few were in the shop. A juvenile had called her name. 'Hello.' she called in return to give time to place her.
Leaning into Shux she whispered. 'I think this is a friend of Rizzy's. Do you think she could know where Rizzy is?'
Shux quirked an eyebrow. 'Possible. Call he over.'
Val. That's her name. Like their owner. How could she not remember it sooner? The anicent waved at Val in hopes of enticing her over. Rynn Ian glanced over, seeing Talon land down where they were. He blinked, taking in his appearance. Seemed the dragonfeien had merged with a gemstone. He wondered if that would happen with him, if he had ever gotten a chance to merge with Cel's. But that wasn't meant to be. "Talon, come over and met the leaf Aria and I helped create." He didn't want Talonfaust to feel left out. TarnishedHalo Val turned back to Ian and tilted her head. She'd taken to making head movements so her earrings would jingle. Sort of like when someone started to play with a tongue ring when they got one. She had two earrings in one ear and only one in the other.
"I am well. In terms of health. Mentally I am the same as usual. That is what you wanted to know, correct? I never know how to respond. Not much exciting has happened. There is a new feien in my house with me so now I have a feien companion around like you do." Shiro Ookami Everyone but her had someone to talk to, so Patience wandered the counter a bit, looking at the items for a bit. She'll just wait for an oppertunity to make conversation. She didn't want to go home just yet. Not when there was this many Feiens here. But she didn't want to push herself on people. So she wandered a bit. Rynn Ian smiled at Val. "Yeah, that's what I wanted to know." He liked her, she was outgoing, spoke her mind. "Congrats on having another feien around! Come see the leaf. Aria and I helped bring this new one to life!" Boy...he was getting excited now! So many to show his kid off too! karma_k For a moment, Talon remained where he was as though he'd not heard Ian, and then moved forward. As he neared, he examined the blue black-edged leaf, cocking his head slightly. He supposed he shouldn't be offput...considering he and Tahki had made a mushroom, after all.
"Congratulations." he said quietly, nodding his head once. "It looks to take after Aria." He looked down at the now pencilpoint-shaped pebble clutched in his six-fingered hand and let it drop to the counter at his side, having lost interest in it. TarnishedHalo "You made it?" Val opened her mouth wide. "Interesting! feien reproduction! I have never seen a second generation bloom.. or leaf, rather." She looked over at Semella and Shux and waved them over. She didn't know Shux but since Semella was nice then her friend was probably fine as well.
The juvenile also looked up at Talon. "Hello sir. You are an adult. I am Valsharess, a juvenile. We have not met. It is a pleasure to meet you... though I do not derive any pleasure out of it personally, I am told that it is common courtesy to say so." She smiled. "Not to say that meeting you displeases me at all, I am rather neutral on the feeling." Rynn The green feien looked to Talon. Had the merging mellowed him out? It seemed too. Maybe he was uncomfortable with everyone about. "Thank you," he said, giving the other adult a small smile.
There were so many feien about now. Seeing Patience off alone, he waved her over. "Come on, come meet and greet!" karma_k Talon blinked, realizing the juvenile was addressing him and quirked a brow as she spoke. She sounded like an automated pre-recorded message like the ones he'd dealt with when trying to figure out how to work a calling card in Europe.
When she finished, he nodded to her, though the brow remained quirked in slight confusion. "Nice.....to meet you too." he said, sounding uncertain. Good gods, and he'd thought Irisa could get technical in normal conversation. "My name is Talonfaust."
It occurred to him that this was the most social he'd been in a long while, such as it was. He supposed taking a long nap and spending a good portion of the evening in Yeande's presense had had something to do with it. Hell, if smiling were habit for him, he'd be the happiest idiot of the bunch right now...instead, however, his face remained carefully blank and mellow. Shiro Ookami Patience looked up and saw Ian calling her over. Well, she could always meet people through someone, and Ian seemed to know the other adult and the younger feien there, so she might as well use him to meet them. Have him impose, rather then her do it herself. So she wandered over to Ian." Greet? I guess so. Hello. My name is Patience, nice to meet you." She gave a polight nod and bow to both Talon and Val. Valora Voldemort 'Hmm...no go. We can go to her.' Semella whispered back at Shux.
'Then go we shall.' Shux strolled past the ancient and went to greet the juvenile properly. 'Hello. Forgive me. My companion here tells me that you are aqaintences with our Rizzy. Is this true?' Oddly straight to the point for Shux, but it seems she does not feel like pracing around the issue they were there for.
Semella gave a nervous laugh to herself as she watched Shux' forwardness. Perhaps she would have in to settle matters between her flatmates. Sarabi Adruenna
Hitomi climbed in through an open window and peered out behind herself. She had now succesfully snuck out of the house for the first time. She had accidnetly awoken the Lunar Sprocket on her way out, but she had managed to lose it hopefully.
She turned to the shop to see if anyone was still here. Not only were Ian and Patience still here, but so were 4 others! She blinked a few times. She had never seen so many Feien in one place in so many times. For the first time in her life she didn't seem so eager to go over and start beign social. There were SO many. She frowned a bit before fluttering to a place that was just a bit closer.TarnishedHalo Valsharess's smile always remained the same, placid and calm. It was almost as if thats how her face always remained and was her natural expression instead of one to express pleasure.
"Talonfaust." She repeated it again and then said something under her breath. She did that a lot.
"You are an adult. I have never seen an adult like you." She hovered up a bit, her hands clasped behind her back again. "You are interesting to look at. I am told it is rude to stare and poke though. I used to do that when I was younger. I shall not subject you unless you approve." She hovered around him again and then lowered, "Green.. green.." she muttered pleasantly to herself as if it were no consequence to anyone else.
When Patience arrived and introduced herself, Val's expression remained unchanged. "Hello Patience. I am Valsharess. You both may call me Val if the nickname suits your tastes. I will not be one to assume what your tastes may be just from meeting you."
Of course in a moment her attention was pulled to the adult with Semella and she just looked at her and hovered. "Rizzy? I am not aware of who this Rizzy is.."
Valsharess looked to Semella, a tad puzzled, and then to Shux. "Unless of course that is a nickname for Rislin. But I have not seen her I am afraid. Have you lost her? Or has she lost herself? That would be a dreadful thing to lose yourself I think. You might be lost in the couch cushions and never even realize you were right under your own nose!"
Val is an odd one, if no one had yet noticed. karma_k "Hello, Patience." Talon greeted. He really was not used to giving out this many greetings and could feel a distant throbbing in his temples that threatened to become a headache if he pushed it much more. For the moment, he ignored it. "My name is Talon."
He felt like a parrot, giving his name over and over again...he supposed it really wasn't any of their fault, though. Rynn Ian decided he's attempt to make conversion. "Did the merging hurt?" he asked Talon? He had a feeling it did, but Talon would know for sure. He did look interesting, with the oddly placed fingers. One would have to get use to that, he knew. And with the horns, well, the weight, if there was any, that would take some getting use too as well. Shiro Ookami Patience Nodded in responce to Val and made note of her name in her head. So amny people she met today. And now she was introduced to another adult. He certainly looked odd, but the mention of Merging made sense. She had seen one of the others who had melded, Yeande. She also made a nod to Talon, though he looked as if he was having a headache. With Shiro having a cronic mirane, Patience was well knowlages in the tel signs of when someone had one, or when was getting one. Her attention was distracted for a second when Hitomi had come back, she gave her a wave before Patience walked closer to Talon." Your head hurting you?" She said softly, in a kind and concerned voice. Though trying to keep it low enough to not have others notice her question. Valora Voldemort Shux smiled faintly at the juvenile. At least she knew the point she was headed for. 'Yes, forgive me. Rislin. She is a flatmate of mine and Semella. She has once again left without giving word of where she is headed. We worry for her safety.' But she grew confused about how to answer the rest of Val's statement.
Semella crossed her arms as Val spewed her response to Shux' questioning. 'I dount she had gotten lost within couch cushions. I have yet to find a couch in the manor, yet I cannot say I have been everywhere within it's walls. But perhaps we shall tell out owner to check them if she does not appear soon.'
Shux' attention however turned to an oddly familiar voice. Well more the name that was spoken. Talon. Another feien she had met once. Leaving Semella behind to talk to the young juvenile, she went to greet him. 'Well I never imagined this was how you were to turn out. But then again I never imagined to be stuck with two other feiens within my household.' karma_k Talon's head turned in Ian's direction and he nodded. "Yes. It hurt like nothing else." he informed the plant feien. "In fact, I can easily say its the worst physical pain I've ever felt in my life." Saying so, he arched his back a bit to pop it, his muscles rippling beneath his skin as he did so.
"But I won't lie to you, it was well-worth the pain." he added, straightening again. karma_k He'd no sooner finished talking to Ian than someone else was approaching him. He looked at the taller female with idle curiousity, wondering who she was for a moment before recognition dawned on him. The markings, the red eyes, the white hair.
"Shux." he said moreso to himself than to her. The long-buried childhood grudge instantly tried to rear its head and he impatiently swatted it down within him.
"You look to be doing well for yourself." he said, nodding once to her. "How long has it been? Half a year at least..." TarnishedHalo Val nodded at Semella and smiled a bit more. At least she didn't seem puzzled. Most usually were. or they lost interest.
"Oh yes. Couches are dangerous things for feien. I hear they devour small things and only give them back if you wrestle them into submission or if humans shove their appendages into the various orifices of the couch. Of course they do not breathe, I have cheked, so I am not sure if they are really alive." Val idly reached up and tugged on one of her own earrings.
"I do hope that Rislin was not devoured by a couch.. or at least has not lost herself. Even if we do not know where she is, I hope she knows where herself is otherwise she would be severely inconvenienced. If I see here I will let you know Semella. Well at least as best I can. I can't guarantee immediate response because the travelling from where I am to where you are will take time.. of course and I may need to do a few errands..." She grew silent a moment and thought about something, as if her ramble continued in her own head. "Yes." She smiled up at the ancient. "If I see her I will inform you as fast as I can." Shiro Ookami Aparently her question fell upon deaf ears as Shux aprouched. There was just something in the air that Patience was getting a vibe. AS much as she wanted to leave the two alone in their conversation, something told her otherwise. So she just watched. Rynn Ian nodded. Well, if he had Cel's gemstone, if he could not bring him back, he'd merge with it. As for pain....well, pain passed. "I daresay, you look wonderful. The smaller horns along side remind me of dragon horns." He wasn't sure if Talon still thought he was a dragon trapped in a feien body, but the those horns suited him. Rynn entered the shop, looking around. So many feien! She smiled, spying Ian talking to one she semi recognized. Walking closer, softly, she smiled. "Greetings, Talon. You have changed considerately. I admit, I like it." She tuned to Ian. "Ianios, it's late. Lets go home."Ianios nodded, then gestured to the bowl. "I think your friend forgot this." Inside was the leaf, just floating there. Rynn nodded, picking up the bowl. "We'll drop this off at his house, then head home."Ian turned back to Talon and Patience. "Goodnight." He waved to Val, Shux, and Semella. "Goodnight!"
He flew up and landed in Rynn's jacket pocket, looking at her. "Remind me to get onto you about the blooms!" he was saying as she walked out. Valora Voldemort 'Easily.' She agreed in a smooth tone. Idly running a finger over the back of her hand, she curiously looked over the odd marking that Talon had now taken. 'Do my ears decieve me in hearing that you have -merged- with a gem stone?' Her head slighly cocked, she grew interested in this subject. Although she doubted that Semella would agree to it at all. But for now including Semella into the converstation was out of the question.
But then again, Semella was being bombared by the juvenile she was currently speaking to. Lots of information wizzed passed her ears, so the ancient tried her best in answering the questions she did catch. 'Couches are furniture and can't possibly be alive. Well, at least I do not know any cases where such a thing has taken place. Not only would feiens have something to fear, but small pets and quite possibly humans as well. What would stop them from attacking anything that came their way? Still illogical if you ask me.' karma_k Talon watched Shux warily, the way a handler might watch a cobra that may or may not strike at any moment, but answered her question. "You heard correctly." he nodded. "And as I told Ianios, its a very painful process. But the results are permanent, and the power it grants is well worth going through it."
He crossed his arms over his chest as he spoke, seeming unaware he was even doing it as his wings fidgeted just slightly on his shoulders. Shiro Ookami Patience waved to Ian as he left and then resumed being close enough to hear what was being said between Talon and Shux. And do do somehting about it if anythign did happen. Plus she herself was curious about how gemstones worked. But she knew one thing, you could never breed if you did merge. TarnishedHalo "Oh completely illogical." Val smiled. "I'm glad we agree."
Val had said nothing, in fact, to show she had a similar view as Semella but with her statement and the sure nod of her head, she knew and thought that they had agreed on something. Perhaps that she was illogical, not just her statement.
She waved to Ian as he left and as Rynn left with him she saw a familiar glint of glasses.
Halo stepped into the shop with a monochrome little boy propped on her hip and a bear-cat draped over her shoulder. The woman's spiked collar was being played with by the little boy who turned his attention on the room of colorful faeries silently.
"Val you ready?"
The juvenile nodded and hovered once again. "Farewell Semella.. My bond and her son are here to get me. Perhaps I will see you soon. I hope you find Rislin soon so that you won't worry about her anymore."
Halo was fixing the little boy's large tophat when Val settled on the brim of it. "Farewell all!" She waved to all those she had just met. "Have pleasant evenings spent in whatever fashion pleases each of you the most."
Halo rolled her eyes and just carried them all out the door.
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:58 pm
THREE THREE TWO OH OH FOURQuote: This is a computer. Type tap type. Interesting!
I do not use this much but Gallium, Gally, shiny-thing is on all the time. She said I should use it to fnd out about magic. I told her I don't think feien magic will be on the intraweb-net-world wide spider thing. She insisted.
So I look for magic and I find a lot about Harry Potter! I like those books. Very fun and interesting. Perhaps I should look into those about magic.
I want to use my powers but I don't know what they do yet. Gallium think I will be able to blow things up but I doubt it. Maybe it comes naturally? Magic appears here and there when it wants to. Unpredictable. Like the weather.
Halo says the weather men predict everything and that way if they are wrong they’ll have covered all the bases already. Weather men never look at the map behind them. Computers, Gallium said.
Maybe she made my magic retarded when she pierced my ears. WHAT IF THAT IS IT?
Of course not. Never, no, never. It couldn't be that easy. Maybe I should ask Kojak? Maybe he knows about magic. He is younger than me but he seems to act like he knows a lot.
I think Gallium wants to pierce him too. She eyes his ears like a rhino before charging, a lion and it's prey, a teacher and an apple -- No maybe not that.
Kojak is nice. He won't let me touch his hair though. I just wanted to feel it. It is a different texture than mine. And he has a tail!
I like this journal thing. Maybe I will post some other time. Type tap Type. The noise is funny but it makes me tired. It's very slow going!
MAGIC MAGIC! MUST LEARN! ==Valsharess Queen==
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:59 pm
TarnishedHalo Valsharess bobbed in the air and hummed a little tune. Her hands were clasped behind her back as usual and she hovered here and there with the tune of her song. It wasn't anything familiar and she may in fact have just made it up herself. She bopped her little head as well and her red hair bobbed here and there and her earrings jingled. She was in a fairly good mood and felt like perhaps she might share it.. of course that is if others wanted it to be shared.. otherwise she really did not care one way or other.
Val wiggled her tiny toes as she made her way to where she saw a few feien gathered. She wasn't sure if any of them were familiar to her at all but it looked like a few adults and some her own age. Wasabineko At that he had to blink. He had never anticipated the things would progress so quickly... so simple. However he recovered long before anything could be seen as amiss. "My name is Indra. I've been around for some time, just not... around." His long ears were beginning to pick up snippets of the conversation that had been in progress before he arrived. He sensed that it wasn't rolling towards a favorable conclusion. He made note of this and continued the introduction at hand. "And you, miss?" kamtrouble "You know me?" Sunil said, scowling again. "Whatever." Sunil tossed the glasses up in the air a little and then caught them again, watching Simon. "Then why have them on right now? I don't see you doing any reading." Zero Dream "Ryuusei, and pleased to meet you." She smilled, but that smile faded as she eyed Simon and Sunil. It didn't seem like this would end well, she also had that thought... And her common sence told her not to get mixed up into it. If she did, it was likely she couldn't get out of the mess. "I don't come around a whole lot either... mostly because of the snow and the cold. There was a snowstorm where I live some time ago, it got so bad that you couldn't even see outside. Everything was just white." RikProwley "I've been updating the shop board," said Simon. He wasn't so easily shaken after his recent bath. Furthermore, the goal of "retrieve glasses" had given his mind a remarkable clarity. kamtrouble Sunil couldn't argue with that, obviously one needed to read in order to write. She had a feeling though that he was trying to trick her. Which was probably just because she liked flipping the glasses around in her hand. "But you aren't doing anything involving reading now are you? Why don't you just let me borrow them for a little bit. I think they'd look good on me." Sunil flipped the glasses up and held them in front of her face so she could look at Simon through them. RikProwley Unfortunately for Sunil, this had the effect of massively distorting everything in view. It was also unfortunate for Simon: anyone with a passing knowledge of glasses could tell the prescription on these was strong, if the thickness of the lenses wasn't clue enough. "They barely fit you," commented Simon, as if he could see Sunil quite clearly. He was right, though. The nose was a bit too narrow and the frames a bit too wide. He crossed his arms and frowned at her expectantly. "If you don't mind, I have to get back to work on the board. The genetics need revising." TarnishedHalo Val made her musical-bobbing way over, first, to some adults that seemed to be having a discussion. In her own way she seemed oblivious that it was an argument.. or at least that was how it appeared. it may in reality have been that she really paid it no mind. She watched them from above, hovering here and there, still humming while while they talked and bopping her head and wiggling her toes.
She didn't know either of them, that she could remember, but the female was holding what looked like glasses. She didn't know that feien wore glasses! How fascinating!
"Hello feien adults." She said plainly with a polite smile on her face. "I couldn't help but notice those glasses. How interesting."
Valsharess buzzed around Sunil's head in a quick circle before she neatly plucked them out of the elder's hand and looked at them, drifting back up intot he air. She wasn't being deliberately rude. She just.. had her own way about her.
The tiny juvenile peered at the spectacles before putting them on herself. They were much too big and made her look bug eyed (and did her eyes cross a little?)
"Oo. Glasses. Spectacles. I must look one at this moment. You are distorted. Very strong. Strong indeed." She smiled and pulled them off, blinking to adjust her eyes again. kamtrouble "What the hell?" Sunil said in protest, as the glasses were neatly plucked away from her by some strange juvenile. "That is so rude to steal someone's glasses like that!" RikProwley Simon couldn't see Valsharess's polite smile, nor could he make out her retrieval of his glasses, but he did gather from her words that his spectacles had changed hands. "You'd do well to listen to yourself, Sunil. Could I perhaps have those back?" he asked, stretching out a hand in Valsharess's direction this time. Wasabineko "That I understand perfectly. Cold and I... we have very little to speak about. Our meetings are sparse and brief if I can help it." He looked about, trying to find something he might lean against as they spoke instead of plopping onto the frigid glass. "This rain, however, I believe I like. I've read of warm places where the rain falls even as it evaporates from the leaves and ponds. That is weather I would very much like to see." And then his attention was spun full over to the development in Glass-capades. In his mind, he comprised a list of various outcomes and how he might defuse each. Choice phrases selected, he was prepared to jump in if needed. TarnishedHalo Valsharess tilted her head at the two and landed. A contemplative look settled on her face, travelling from a slight furrow of her brown down her features into a pursing and wiggling of her lips.
"Well I really suppose it depends on your definition of rude. One might think that saying excuse me is a rude comment and then in fact you are being rude when others may think you are being polite."
Her mouth opened to continue before she realized she might ramble and she'd been warned against that. Val looked at the male feien who was looking at her and wanting the glasses.
"Well I suppose you can have them, yes. I mean I can't use them. Much too strong. It's a shame someone just left them here in this lady feien's hand. I found them. Yes of course you may have them!" She gave a smile and gave them back to Simon. She gathered that they may be his by how he asked, but her speech was just her own roundabout and confusing explanation. Everyone else may in fact think she was idiotic and/or insane.
"I am Valsharess. I suppose I should introduce myself to the both of you since we just met in this place. Thank you glasses, for bringing us together." RikProwley "Thank you, glasses," mumbled Simon, slipping the glasses back onto his face. He blinked at Valsharess. Yet another unfamiliar face. He supposed he might have to learn who everyone was if he was supposed to run this shop. "I'm Simon, the shop owner." He glanced at Sunil, now that he could actually make out her features. kamtrouble Sunil just sputtered for a moment, wondering what the hell had just happened. "Valsharess. That's a strange name. I suppose it fits," she muttered, crossing her arms over her chest again. "I hope you know you just ruined my fun." Zero Dream "I like air, but not cold air like right now. I believe what you're talking about would be stream, Indra. Z told me about it when she was making tea. When water reach a certain temperature point, it becomes lighter than air, gaz instead of liquid, and soars up... I think. Her explaination was like greek, so that's all I kinda understood of it." She didn't seem to mind the glass at all, sitting on the edge and letting her legs hang in the air, her yellow feathered wings closed against her back, having no use to keeping them spraid out as she wasn't using them at the moment. RikProwley Now that he was able to see again, Simon couldn't help but to blush slightly at his folly. He should have recognized Sunil sooner. Those markings and the hair -- it could only be Sunil, of course. Her personality had just been the icing on the cake. "Fun at the expense of others is the refuge of the very small-minded," he said, wrinkling his nose. "You're no better than Corvus, Sunil, and he was right about what he said about you." TarnishedHalo "Simon.." She wiggled her pursed lips again. "I know your name from somewhere..." Her voice dropped as she talked to herself. "Simon.. simon..met a pieman.." She bobbed her head and then opened her mouth.
"YES! Halo told me about you. She's my bond you know. She told me a lot about feien I didn't know. She said that I was your bloom.. or .. something. That would mean child, correct? You gave birth to me? Interesting. Really." She had put only little thought into meeting her parent and had felt nothing but curiosity. "Isn't this funny? And I am sorry, lady feien. I will call you lady feien because you have not introduced yourself to me quite yet. I did not mean to ruin your fun. It didn't look enjoyable though, because you were not smiling. I apologize but I was told that fun things made you smile. I hope that you don't do all your fun things with such frowns on your face." RikProwley "Birth you...? Ah, no," said Simon quite firmly, intent on erasing any misconceptions on this juvenile's part before they could take hold any deeper. Particularly if she was actually one of his offpsring. While she bore little resemblence to himself or Yasha, she did look a bit like Fifth. "Feien don't give birth. Feien are borne by a fairy plant. Furthermore, we have 'children' only in a very technical sense. All feien are in actuality children of their mother plant." kamtrouble "Refuge of the very small-minded." Sunil mimiced, rolling her eyes. "And I really don't give a rat's a** what Corvus said about me." She gave Simon a hard stare, narrowing her eyes at him. She didn't like this little smarty pants than thought he was better than her. And the fact he obviously had been friends with Corvus only pissed her off more. The fact that the freak juvenile was apparently his kid siphoned off a little of her rage into laughter. "Your kid is a freak Simon. Like father like daughter?" She gave Val her own little angry glare and then stomped off, leaving a conversation on a losing note for the second time in as many days. RikProwley Simon very quickly came back with, "Actually, yes. You do take after your father, don't you, Sunil?" His face reddened further. TarnishedHalo Val lifted up into her hover a bit higher and looked after Sunil. "I was always told that freak meant original.. unles you had some sort of disgusting physical abnormality that made people unable to bear looking at you. At least that's what Gallium says." She looked back at Simon, totally unphased by insults. She remained completely calm. Everything seemed to roll off of her.
"Why are you blushing Simon? Are you embarrassed? Should I call you Simon or father or perhaps nothing. Perhaps you don't wish to know me? If that is so then I am completely fine with your wishes. Though I would expect a fairly good explaination. All actions should have plausible and logical reasons behind them." Zero Dream Ryuusei just watched as Sunil left, and seemed a little relieved. This would be one to avoid, she took note... She really didn't wish to get in any trouble. All she wanted was to be happy, her friends happy, and being able to play games and do the things she liked. It shouldn't be too hard, right ? It wasn't like if she was asking for the world on a platter. RikProwley Simon stopped sniping at Sunil long enough to listen to Valsharess and his color only reddened even more. "No, it's--" he began, then quickly abandoned trying to explain why he always blushed, as the explanation would only embarass him further. "I am sorry we haven't met sooner, actually. I've been... busy." Which was a damn lie. Hiding out in a closet reading books to avoid contact with the outside world did not and never would constitute the definition of "busy." Wasabineko He smiled in response. Of course he had known exactly what he was talking about, but he wasn't going to begrudge her explanation of the simple process. He appreciated that she was eager to share her knowledge even if it was of things he had learned long ago. In return, he would do the same. "I'm quite intimate with concept of steam, down the element in fact. My bond jokes that all she needs to summon me is to set a kettle on the burner. But, what I am referring to a place. There are these forests, far south from here, where the sun lends the most warmth to the earth. They are tropical... muggy... steamy. The also have the strangest inhabitants... things to rival even what we find around here." He was, of course, referring to wide range of exotic fauna that seemed to be the vice of bonds. Wasabineko had managed to keep a healthy cap on her collection... but he had heard rumours... TarnishedHalo Val nodded and set back down, looking up at her father. "It's alright. I don't leave the house much. No good reason except that I don't. I explore around home and read and try and work on the intraweb-net-worldwide thing. ANd I help Gallium get piercing materials. She did my ears!" She shook her head and the 3 rings jingled a bit.
"I haven't seen any other feien with earrings. I think they make me original, though we are all original in our own way. I don't look much like you." Her shift of subject was very abrupt, almost in the same breath. RikProwley Simon nearly groaned. Apparently, he had passed on his worst traits to this juvenile. (Neither he nor Yasha had passed on any traits to Fifth, of course.) "I like the earrings," he offered. "Feien don't look much like their genetic parents most of the time. It's merely a facet of our biology. We're more related to the plant than each other." Zero Dream After that, trough, she glanced at the time, and her tiny orange eyes whidened. "Oh, im sorry, but I need to go..." She got up, looking a bit sad. "I hope to see you later, you're nice to be around ! See you, Indra !" With this, Ryuusei took off by the same way she came in. TarnishedHalo Her eyes widened a bit as he explained. "Really? That's very interesting. I like to find these things out. I like to know a lot of things. All I can really. I figure there is no harm in knowing and experiencing everything. I think breeding would be great fun. Just to see what I would produce, you know? Yes.. great great fun." RikProwley "That's a good way to look at it," agreed Simon. His blush was receding slightly. "Have you familiarized yourself with the things on the notice board? There's a good deal of information there, most of what's known." Wasabineko That was fleeting... Pleasant... but fleeting. Perhaps it was a good thing that he hadn't had the chance to get comfortable... TarnishedHalo "A little bit. I haven't sat extensively and studied it yet. I know about what pertains to myself mostly." She tilted her head. "Did you write all of that yourself?? I should really learn it all. That way I can have all the supreme knowledge of the feien!!!.. Well not really. That would be a lot of things I probably wouldn't care to know. Details details. I am still a bit puzzled about magic though. I know what it is and that it is there but I don't know how to use it. Maybe I do and don't realize it. Oh did you know my element was Respiration?? Interesting huh???" RikProwley Respiration. Same as Fifth. Well, this really did seem to be one of his offspring. Simon arched an eyebrow. "Is it?" he said, pretending to be surprised. "I'm afraid I can't tell you much about the magical information; I'm not well-versed in it myself. I wrote all the genetics information after the first few genes, though. That's been my primary role in the shop for some time now." TarnishedHalo
"Oh.." She frowned a bit. "But that is alright, Simon-father." he never answered what she should call him. So that would do. "I will find out from someone. In time. Perhaps since you are an expert genetic-person, I shall ask of you about that. I don't know anything about genes except that you are my father and Yasha is my mother. I suppose I had siblings too? I never met any of those. Not that I am aware of anyway. I haven't looked into it. Perhaps I should make Halo find out my genetic information. She is lazy. Gallium calls her a '******** lazy a** b***h'." Val actually finger quoted the phrase and it was said in such a blunt and clinical way that it could hardly be taken as offensive.RikProwley "Could you--" Simon started to say. There came a voice from the front entrance. "Simon," it said very clearly. Simon looked up at his name. The voice belonged to a middle-aged man in a heavy black coat, familiar green hat, and black gloves. "There you are," he continued upon sighting the feien. He stepped into the shop. "We were worried when you didn't come back." "Sorry," said Simon, "I rather much had some things to take care of and lost track of time." "Well, dinner's to be starting in fifteen minutes. If you head out now you can be back in time for it, and you can have my company for the trip." It was a tempting offer. Simon looked back at Valsharess. "I'm terribly sorry," he said, "I have to go. You're welcome to come and visit me at any time. The directions are on the shop board." And with that he bobbed his head farewell and made his way out with the older man. TarnishedHalo Val didn't seem bothered that Simon was leaving. She was, as always, completely nuetral. It rolled off.
The juvenile feien waved politely. "Goodbye Simon-father! Have a good dinner. Perhaps I will visit sometime, yes I should. It would be interesting and you could tell me about genetics and make me a genius." he smiled again as the Simon-father left and then turned back to the other feien that might be around, if any. She had lost track of them since she'd been engrossed in conversation. Wasabineko Just as Val was scanning the room, Indra happened to be looking straight at her. The result was a perfect, uninterrupted connection. He gave a short wave and a cheeky smile, feeling a bit like an intruder on the whole exchange. TarnishedHalo Val blinked at the boy fairy and then waved back. She hovered over to where he was and wiggled her toes a bit, hands once more clasped behind her back. "Hello. I am Valsharess, boy-feien. Who are you?"
She looked him over and tried to attach what he looked like to various feien descriptions she'd heard in her head. He sure had pretty hair though! Wasabineko As strange as the greeting was, it wasn't something he was entirely unprepared for, having listened in on the previous conversation. Actually, he almost welcomed this sort of lively exchange, even if he had to think double time to keep up. "My name is Indra, Miss She-Feien-Valsharess." He snapped his fingers in instant recognition. "The gift. You and I have met before... even if only through the exchange of cosmetics." TarnishedHalo Val smiled a bit wider at the greeting and bobbled her head and let her earrings jingle. "Oh! Indra! I know your name! A face to a name.. or a name to a face.. name-face face-name."
She finally set herself down beside him on her feet, "You were my not-so-secret-because-I-revealed-my-identity Santa! Did you enjoy your gift and use it? Your hair is very sparkly-shiny so I hope so. I hope I made the right decision in it's creation." Wasabineko "Yes I have made plenty of use out of your gifts and am very grateful. I only wish I might have been your..." He stumbled over the wording with a smile, "...your still-secret-because-I-wasn't-really-your-santa-so-my-identity-is-safe-santa so I could reciprocate your thoughtful present. Perhaps I can give you a gift for another occasion or just for fun." She seemed to be a very kind soul. He couldn't see why the two elders seemed to regard her with such disdain. TarnishedHalo Val rocked on her heels and wiggled her toes again. "Oh that would be special, spiffy, and all together lovely I think. Though it is unnecessary. I never got my secret santa gift as a recipient. I don't mind though. I know people are very busy and distracted and may be weird about giving a stranger a gift!"
The feien girl tucked her bangs behind her ear and looked around. "Are you the only one here? Weren't you speaking with another? Not that it matters or you have to tell me. I would be perfectly content not to know as well as I would be to know." Wasabineko It was a little sad, that she had worked so hard to create a gift for him only to receive nothing in return. He made a mental note to rectify the situation as soon as he was able. He didn't have to look over his shoulder the answer her question. "I do believe we are the only survivors of this afternoon. Miss Ryuu has gone on her way... to where I don't know. Will you be here long?" TarnishedHalo "I don't know. Halo is very odd and unpredictable. She will come by when it is convenient for her. If she doesn't cme at all then I can stay as long as I'd like!" Val tugged her earring idly. She had a habit of that now.
"I will stay and keep you company if you'd like. Do you happen to know anything about magic?" Wasabineko "No knowledge that I haven't gained from just experimenting. Nothing formal. I would like to find someone who does someday, but it seems they are far and in between." His eyes caught the glints of metal sparkling through the strands of her hair. "Are those...? I've only seen those on bonds before now." TarnishedHalo "Earrings." She shook her head and the hoods bobbled. "Gallium did them. She's shiny. A mendel. She likes piercings and tattoos and wanted to try to pierce so she did my ears. Do you like them? She will pierce you if you want. She'll pierce anyone, anywhere."
Val tilted her head. " I want to learn magic. I don't know how to do it really." ====end=====
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:00 pm
TarnishedHalo A bright red haired head popped in under the crack in the window and with big eyes and a smile said, "Wooooo! Shiny box of lettery flashing magic!" Val really had no idea what had happened or what had been proposed to happen but that mail thing was neat. "Interesting mail contraption-item. Ours at home doesn't do that. Hello Simon-father!" The tiny feien juvenile wriggled herself inside like some sort of worm. Not that she necessarily needed to move like a worm but it suited her mood at the moment. Perhaps she was just pleased to see people in the shop. Or maybe not. You never could tell. "Ooo. Call the maid-cleaner. It's dirty 'like whoah'." She'd obviously picked that phrase up from home. Feien "Valsharess!' said Simon, amazed to see the feien appear so soon after he had been thinking of her. At Val's words it suddenly occured to Simon that even though the paper had risen up into the air and disappeared as if by magic, the situation had not triggered the prickling of the hairs on the back of his neck that indicated magic was in use. He frowned. "That's odd..." Feien "Can I have another of those sheets?" Simon asked suddenly, looking over to Sarabi. TarnishedHalo Once through the window she immediately hovered and tucked her hands behind her back in her normal position. She wiggled her toes and tilted her head to the side. "They say that sometimes, yes." She just grinned and swooped (in a hovering sort of way) over to Simon, looking up at Sarabi, the person she didn't know, and offering a shining cute grin too. "What was the important correspondence relating-attached-connected to?" was directed back to Simon. Feien "It was an objection," said Simon, pointing towards the notice on the wall. "To that." Quote: ==========OFFICIAL NOTICE OF SEIZURE==========
==========Galactic Empire/ID Battle Fleet==========
-------Department of Operations-------
Director Vice Admiral Kazuo Fujimoto presiding
Lt. A. Cabrizzio, secretary adjutant ATTN: Feien Community, Citizens of Gaia, Employees and Benefactors of the Feien Shop This notice is to inform you of the seizure of all properties, personnel, and products associated with the Feien Shop and its subsidiaries across all dimensions and sub-dimensions. As of this moment these artifacts are to be considered under the direct control of The Galactic Empire and its operating branch The ID Battle Fleet (Code 57.7, Martial Law Seizure). As of this moment, all feien are conscripted military personnel to be assigned jointly to the Communications Department and the Science Directorate and shall be placed under the command of Deputy Communications Director Captain Maruo Hamada pending reassignment and reallocation to new departments. All feien have two weeks local planetary time to report in writing to ID Battle Fleet in order to avoid termination. Requests for specific reassignments will be heard. Extensions may be granted in qualifying situations. Any feien not submitting such a request will be at the mercy of the Fleet and its commanders. After the period of objection required by Imperial law has passed, judgment will be made by Fleet commanders with regards to the final placement of all feien currently living on Gaia. This seizure is non-negotiable under the terms of Galactic Imperial Law. Objections may be filed with the appropriate regional offices of the Fleet, which may be contacted via the Feien Shop mailbox. Inquiries may be directed to DDirCOMM Capt. Maruo Hamada and will be dealt with as soon as possible. The Galactic Empire and its operating branch The ID Battle Fleet thank you for your compliance with Galactic Imperial law. Lt Alfredo Cabrizzio SecAdj V Adm Fujimoto, Dir-OPS CC: DDir-COMM Capt M Hamada (COMM/INT); DDir-ENG Dr R Zakharov (ENG/SCI); Dir-INT Adm P Antipov; SuprCmdr EA Piett (NAVY/OPS/INT); SC-SCI Lt Cmdr R Rambaldi (SCI); Dir-OPS V Adm K Fujimoto (OPS); ADir-INT Dr M (INT); SC-ENG Lt Cmdr K Nara (ENG); FSCI R Reidinger (COMM/SCI) FRD: 0770-01200-00126-00021.45 DAC: 000030927581-55279-00451 Sarabi Adruenna "Oh of course!" Sarabi ripped a couple more sheets of paper and handed them to Simon, "Here you are, dear." She then leaned on the counter trying to wrack her mind to think of more people. She honestly didn't know many people in the Feien community, and she told Simon this. "Other than Hitomi and her friend Kojak, I don't know many others. I breifly met Kojak's bond, Wren, when he stopped by to drop off Kojak. Although, I'm sure Hitomi wouldn't be too keen on the idea of beign taken away to join the military."
As if on cue. The bubbly pink child flew through the always open window and pulled the breaks midair and hung there looking around herself taking in the shop.
"What happened in here? It looks like it was attacked by a really big dust bunny. Which is actually highly possible, if untended to dust bunnies can actually grow to be quite large. Which is odd because it usually works the other way with most animals. The less you feed a dog or a cat the smaller they tend to get because they get really hungry and skinny. Oh. Hi mom!" Hitomi kept mumbling to herself as she made her way about the shop picking up various pieces of trash and clearing away the dust that she could. She'd puff her cheeks up really big and blow out a small gust of wind sending dust flying off the surface and on to the floor, creating more mess on the floor. But at least the tables were getting cleaner. [Note: Hitomi is an air Feien and is practicing the skill, 'Small Gust'. Sometimes it does nothing that a lung full of air could normally do. Sometimes it cleans off an entire tabletop, and anywhere in between.] Feien There was a sudden flurry as dust, loads of dust, flew up into the air around Simon, Sarabi, and Valsharess. For a magical moment it was winter in July with discolored snowflakes. Then Simon gave two quick sneezes, jerking roughly about in the air with each. "Achoo! Achoo!" Feien "Achoo!" came another sneeze from the corner of the shop. The empty corner. TarnishedHalo "OooooOOoooOoooOoo." The noise really did vary in pitch as she hovered in front o the document, buzzing here and there, wiggling her toes excitedly and behind her back her tiny fingers wiggled and laced and unlaced and danced animatedly on her hands. She spun around and put on a stern face, buzzing down to be in front of Simon. "ATTEEEENSHUN!" She put her hand up to her forehead in something of a salute that looked like it came from a Three Stooges skit. "Peeeeeriiiivate Valsharrrress repooortin fer duty!" She immediately snapped out of it though. "OoOo!" It was followed by a bubbly cute giggled. "Wren has funny horns and I like to braid-cornrow his hair. He is a sex-pot!" Obviously she'd been eavesdropping on her bond on the phone with friends. "Simon-father." Her attention flipped again. It was amazing how fast it changed. Not necessarily scatterbrained so much as.. full brained. "I'm a lover not a fighter. The world is a stage!" ...whatever those two combined meant. And then the dust flew around and Val sneezed too. And Simon-father sneezed. And the corner sneezed. And of course, Val had to make an 'O' face and swoop over to investigate! "Are you an invisible friend?" She whispered into the air. "It's ok. We love you. well maybe not. But Simon-father will love you. I'll make sure!" Sarabi Adruenna "Egads! Hitomi, love! Hitomi! Please stop dear. We know you're trying to be helpful but it's just making a bigger mess. And it's disturbing poor Simon here." Sarabi turned to Simon after his sneezes, "Bless you, dear, I'm sorry about that. Hitomi underestimates herself sometimes. I hope you're not to angry." As the other sneeze came from the corner Sarabi casually turns and says, "Bless you. Like I said Hitomi..." Sarabi then turns quickly towards the corner, her eyes rather wide. There wasn't anyone there previously. Sarabi fans her hand in front of her face trying to clear the last bit of dust from the hair. Her hands growing blue and shiny as the blue gelatinous magic begings to slowly cover her hands, a defensive reaction anymore nowadays. "Um..Is someone there??" Feien "Achoo!" went the corner again. Valsharess could feel a gust of air sweep past her. Then something came up and knocked her through the air several inches. Instantly the invisible assailant spoke. "I am sorry!" said the voice, high and panicky. "So sorry! Are you okay?" It sounded male -- barely, as if the male in question were young in age. Feien "Va--" Simon started, eyebrows tightening with worry as the juvenile was knocked aside. He would have darted over to help but for the sudden voice from the corner. His eyes widened with surprise. Today was just full of surprises, it seemed. And not really the good kind. TarnishedHalo Val bobbled in the air, her comfortable tight hovering pose broken apart by the gust. It only made her blink and begin to mumble a bit. "Bibblebobble air. Turbulence. Ghosts!" Mumbling to herself until she caught it and heard the corner talking to her. "Invisible friend! I am fine." She regained her composure. "You should have your allergies checked out. They are sort of Bitchin'! Kick some a**, if you will!" Val buzzed around the corner, "Do mine eyes decieve me? Do mine eeears? He or she, invisible ghosty fiend!" She was smiling though and waving her arms in front of her looking for the invisible culprit. Sarabi Adruenna "Um...Boy, are you alright?" Hearing a young voice Sarabi assumed that there wasn't much of a threat. What she really wanted to know was how the boy got there. But with letters popping into thin air, I suppose it was possible for people to pop out of thin air. Sarabi took a couple of cautious steps toward the corner hoping to not meet the wrong end of some kind of weapon...or, knowing this place, spell. Feien There was a shimmer in the air and suddenly a person was standing there. He was young, no more than seventeen years of age, with feathery-soft blonde hair and dark blue eyes. He was dressed in a brown uniform with blue shoulders and some silver pins at the collar. He smiled apologetically. "I'm quite fine," he said, voice even and calm now. "I did not mean to disturb you. I'm afraid I'm not much of a spy." Feien "Who are you?" Simon demanded instantly, recognizing the uniform but not the face. The boy bowed his head and tugged at the jacket of his uniform. "Lieutenant Alfredo Cabrizzio, Communications/Operations, secretary adjutant to Ops Director Fujimoto." He gave a small salute, crisp but not wholly military. TarnishedHalo Val made an 'O' face again and her waving arms bumped into the boy's nose. "Big stranger-invisible-thing. Named after pasta sauce...." She backed up and hovered in front of his face, hoping maybe his eyes would cross. She always got a kick out of that. "Spy eh?" The tiny feien spun, mumbling something about prisoners of war, court marshals, and Stargate. She buzzed down to Simon and leaned over. "What should we do with 'im, Cap'n Simon-Father? Tar an feather? Torture? Hours of the show My Three Sons???" Sarabi Adruenna "Well arriving in the midst of a dust storm doesn't help I suppose." Sarabi saw the boy's uniform and assumed this was their response to the letters. Hearing the boy's introduction confirmed the suspicion. Her tone changed dramatically. She became a bit colder and more cold, "I'm assuming that you were sent as the reply to our letters. I'm glad there were at least recieved. I wasn't quite sure where they went after the vanished." Sarabi stood with her arms crossed, the blue color draining away. This boy barely had 3 hairs on his chest. He was also barely a threat. Feien "I'm not a spy," said the lieutenant quickly, raising his hands defensively. "I am a communications officer. I'm still working on the reply to your message. I have transmission incoming about it right at this moment." In addition to his uniform the boy had a device attached to his waist. There was a small keypad on it and tucked to the side was a familiar sheet of folded, yellowed paper. Sarabi's objection notice. This was really quite the event. Simon looked at Val, realizing that yet again he was being directed to call the shots, and straightened perceptibly with the responsibility. If only he knew what he was supposed to do. "If I may?" asked Lt. Carbizzio, pointing down at the device on his belt. Simon gave a nod. The lieutenant imediately began to key something into the keypad with fast, small motions on his left hand. audespero In Dreisan's now absence, Donovan tried not to further distress Aude. He could tell she was a bit confused and obviously not the most stable of individuals. Oh how half of him wished his wings hadn't failed, but the other half really didn't quite mind meeting this human. There was something about her childish sobs that endeared her to him.
"Excuse me miss, but I think it's about time I talk with someone who knows what's going on, for my own sake. I've become rather weak these days and I fear the worst for my bond." And with that Donovan bowed, tested his wings for strength, and flitted over towards the others. TarnishedHalo Val hovered behind Simon and peered over his shoulder. She was mumbling some names under her breath to herself, though he could probably hear. She gave no care to maybe he'd think she was crazy. "..Rosso. Valerio. Carbizzio." "Simon-father," She inquired aloud. "Are space-galactic-alien people Italian? His name sounds like Italy-ians." Just a random thought. Since two italians lived at home with her. "Is this the draft?" Feien "I'm not a space alien," the lieutenant said, still focused on his device. "I'm from Italy. Venice, to be more exact." Then he looked to Sarabi. "Do you require an official hardcopy or will vocal communication suffice? Or unofficial hardcopy?" audespero He wasn't quite sure how to go about introducing himself, seeing as how he'd never met more than a couple of Brook's aqquaintances, and never any other Feiens.
He hovered in closer to the mass of people, a hand to his mouth, trying to speak but nothing would emerge. He just wasn't quite decided on what to say, nor how to say it. He could just wait for someone to see him, or hear him, but they were all so engorged in their own situations at hand, that it was probably an unlikely wish that they take time to notice simply another unknown Feien flitting in the air nearby.
It was obvious that he was just going to have to figure out something to say, and darn well say it. Sarabi Adruenna Sarabi narrowed her eyes a bit, she didn't quite trust this boy. The or the man he worked for. Why would a powerful miltary commander send this boy to take care of work that he should've shown up for himself. The boy started fiddling with something on this belt and Sarabi raised an eyebrow. She tried to look calm as he addressed her, "I'd appriciate a hardcopy if you would please. Official or otherwise." She was attempting to go about this as diplomatically, and officially, as possible. She wanted copies of everything in case all of this was thrown back into her face at some point in the future. Feien The lieutenant smiled at Sarabi, either oblivious to her discomfort or ignoring it. "I'll give you unofficial, then. It would take longer to get official document codes." He pressed something on the device at his waist and a sheet of paper emerged. "This communication is from Deputy Communications Director Captain Hamada." Lt. Cabrizzio held out the paper for Sarabi to take. Quote: From: DDirCOMM Capt M Hamada Re: Objection Notification subj Feien Project Seizure/Reallocation Please inform the party that feien who apply to remain on Gaia with their current bonds will be acknowledged and that so long as their current home is satisfactory these applications will be accepted. Our only interest is in removing feien from those homes which are not to project standards. End reply. --------TRANSMISSION END-------- Sarabi Adruenna Sarabi takes the paper from teh boy and reads it to herself before reading to aloud to those who cared/were paying attention, namely Simon. "Who is to say if their 'current home is satisfactory'", Sarabi made litle quotey fingers around the last bit. "Is someone going to come down and inspect everyone's homes? That's a bit of an invasion of privacy. And who's to say that the living situation is 'unsatisfactory'? What's unsatisfactory to...whoever you work for might be perfectly satisfactory to those that are actually in the 'current home'" She saw the point of the correspondence, but still did not agree with the entire project and was going to stand firm on her side of the verbal battle. Feien Simon, who had decided to hang back in the air and hope he was not called upon to make any more executive decisions, drifted down to read the reply. Suddenly it began to make sense to him. He recalled his conversation with Kazuo about the lack of information on many of the feien living on Gaia. "I can't say whether their homes are satisfactory or not," he had said. "It worries me to have feien scattered across Gaia without any contact with them or their owners. Given the problems with those feien and owners I do actually know, there could be serious issues with the missing feien."
Kazuo had nodded gently in agreement, sipped his tea, and said, "Even with careful monitoring there have been mishaps with the fleet project feien, but we can at least minimize the problems with bond reassignment. Captain Hamada tells me he has had great success creating productive pairings with our current roster."
The words weighed heavily on Simon. "I almost wish I'd had the option of choosing my bond the way Fleet feien do," he said slowly. "And that someone policed my bond the way you police yours." He had looked up suddenly, worried he'd said too much. But the Vice Admiral only smiled in understanding and said, "Sometimes the arrangement is not right, even when you love the person."And that, Simon realized, had led this whole mess. Maybe it wasn't too late to undo it. Feien "The requirements for that," said Lt. Cabrizzio slowly, reviewing his orders in his head, "are the decision of Captain Hamada. To quote him, 'there must be regular communication between the central agency and the outside units. Without that we risk violating our agreement.' So far as I understand it, home inspections are not required, but registering with the regional office on a regular basis is." audespero Upon hearing all the jibber jabber, Donovan once again second guessed himself. What if he too were taken away... His wings jingled loudly and he reached behind and smacked them. In his mind he urged "Nooo. Not now wings. Hush!" However they weren't listening. They jingled louder, like a tiny plea for help. He tumbled forward in the air and landed face first on the nearest table/surface. Feien Simon turned towards Donovan and blinked. "Are you quite alright?" he asked, moving towards the smaller feien. It was a silly question; Donovan was clearly in some trouble. audespero Donovan didn't respond. He was silent, his face plastered with a weak expression and pressed against the surface of the table. His markings were pale, and his wings barely shimmered in the room's bright light. Something was obviously not okay. audespero Her face buried in her arms, which were hugging her knees, Aude was too tired/gone for her to even realize that Donovan had left her shoulder, or that he had faultered in his flight to the middle of the room. She was still attempting to process all of this anyways. Strange little people on her shoulder, talking to her, military people trying to take them away. She hoped it was all just a strange dream, and that she would wake up in her and Sarabi's new home, any moment. TarnishedHalo During all the big-people talk, Val had gotten distracted. She was back at the notice board, and exploring the dust trails. She didn't notice Donovan (though she'd love to meet him if she'd seen him) and ended up disappearing into the shelves and dusty corners and alcoves. Maybe she'd find something interesting.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:43 pm
TarnishedHalo "OOOOooooooOOoooo!" A high pitched squeal of a tiny degree was emitted from the front of the headquarters in the front room. "It's so extraordinarily shinypretty!" Valsharess had arrived, planning on showing Rurik the place she was familiar with but finding everything changed when she'd finally arrived. The tiny feien buzzed about distractedly. "I wonder if Simon-father is here!" She zoomed down close to her companion, who had a sour look on his face, and moved too close into his comfort zone. "Back off spaz!" Rurik threw his arms up in front of him and pushed the smaller feien away from him. "GOD.. all in my space. What is your deal?!" He sneered and hopped into the air. His wings flapped a few times and he lazily flew away from the other feien. "This place looks lame. Ugh.." He rolled his eyes, seeing people down the hall a ways. "There's friggin people here." "Yay! People are fun!" Val had been unphased by the push Rurik had given her. She was unphased by his behaviour in general, and found it amusing when he and Gallium teamed up in a fight or against someone else. She could never tell if they liked or hated eachother. Feien The little bespectacled doctor did a curious thing. He wobbled slightly and his face brightened into a smile that could truly only be described as creepy with the way it displayed his small little teeth. "Esmereldaaa," he crooned as he swayed. Antipov had the presence of mind to look faintly horrified in embarassment. The last thing he needed was Dr. M not only being socially idiotic, but on one of his off days. "Jonathan!" he said severely, and Dr. M agreeably drifted in the direction of the kitchen. Antipov was not amused. With a semi-apologetic glance at Rose and another whining groan he closed his office door and followed Dr. M down the hallway. "Come along then," he said to Rose in a tone that could easily be mistaken for politeness. rosemilk Rose followed, also obviously mildly horrified, but unable to actually think of a reason why she couldn't go; she followed after Antipov and M like a lamb to the slaughter, gulping as she went. Cascati, on the other hand - now deprived of a reason to make faces - had sat up at the noises Rurik and Valsharess were making; unknown feien that he couldn't quite place. Burgundia didn't stir, but the Ice feien officiously preened his hair and looked up from the couch. "Hello, children," he said languidly. "Having an excursion?" TarnishedHalo "HI!" Val zoomed in a zig-zag towards Cascati. "Hello largehaired one! I am Valsharess and this is.." "Shut the hell up. Don't introduce me like you know me." Rurik crossed his arms and landed on top of a chair. He brushed his bangs with his fingers self consciously and made sure there were no hairs straying from his braid. Val blinked and smiled her always present smile. "He is a companion who now lives in our home. Ignore his abrasive and slightly obnoxious demeanour. He means well." There was a derisive snort from Rurik's direction, "******** if I mean well." was the only reply. Feien Dr. M beelined for the coffee maker and began to fumble with the various components with a surety that said that while the coffee maker was in terrible, terrible shape, he knew how to get it to do what it was meant for. Antipov beelined for the round kitchen table. He gladly collapsed into the chair nearest the window and sprawled his legs out in the typical fashion of males viewing sporting events from their sofa recliners. That left four chairs for Rose to pick from, two of which would land her directly next to the Intelligence Director. rosemilk Rose sat primly in one of the chairs that did not immediately put her next to Antipov, being sensibly slightly terrified, hands folded in her lap as she watched M with a sick sort of fascination. The coffee machine sounded like it had once delivered caffeinated beverages to velociraptors back in the Triassic age, or whatever age the dinosaurs had lived in, which she couldn't remember quite correctly. Burgundia, on the other hand, had opened up one crimson eye from her place of languid meditation; Rurik was familiar, visually, not a victim of the light mind wipe she'd gone through. Her elbow was placed quite firmly in Casca's side until he recognized the signal. "This is my sister, Burgundia," he introduced, faintly unwillingly, and longed to add: who apparently can't introduce herself.Feien With a hiss and a sputter the coffee maker produced a lightning-quick pot of steaming liquid. Dr. M removed the pot by grabbing it with his two bare hands, apparently immune to how hot it must be, and gently placing it down on a square quilted potholder on the counter. Then he reached up and began to pull down mugs from the cabinet above, straining onto the tips of his toes to reach. Antipov watched this familiar routine quietly and then stealthily turned his gaze to Rose. He knew M's habits already. His time was better used studying Rose's reactions. TarnishedHalo "Oh don't you even try and call me your friggin brother. NOT HAPPENING." Rurik settled himself in a sitting position but he was careful about it, like he'd break a nail or something. Val smiled at the two new feien. "Hello Burgundia! I am Valsharess, like I said, and that is Rurik." Rurik made an awful face and screamed suddenly in anger, "I SAID NOT TO INTRODUCE ME!" His temper was obviously nasty and he liked to have things his way. "Can't believe this damn place. First their booting your a** and then you can't remember s**t. What they hell. Might as well just kill me!" He wasn't even talking to anyone in particular. He was his own best company and his own audience and the whole time he talked his hands were gesturing and flashing like the drama queen he was turning out to be. Valsharess giggled, "Death would be interesting.. I haven't seen that yet!" The odd statement made Rurik yell something else along the line of "And now they want me DEAD!" and scowled viciously. rosemilk Cascati sat up a little straighter; he had, at the very least, expected to be bored stiff by any new inhabitants. (He still longed for a cigarette, but Rose had taken the pack off him and Burgundia had started giving him looks and talking about his immortal soul.) Maybe this would be interesting. However, before he could comment, his 'sister' had propped herself up from one elbow from her supine position to give Rurik a sleepy-eyed look. She'd tied another piece of dark red cloth over her hair, primly, to cover it; the rest of it was around her shoulders, hands tugging it around her body. "I've made your acquaintance," she said, in Rurik's direction. Casca still winced at her accent: Ah've made yo' acquaintance! "I surely saw you at the Fleet." "I can't say I've had the extraordinary pleasure of either experience, Dee dear," Casca said, languid, and drew Valsharess' hand forward to brush his lips over her knuckles. "I'm charmed, ma cherie." At least she was pretty. TarnishedHalo Rurik looked at Burgundia for a moment. His third eye seemed to bore into her harder than the other too and even when he snorted, crossed his arms over his chest, and tossed his head in disgust that third eye still stared at her. "Not that I'd GODDAMN REMEMBER. Damn Fleet bastards." He obviously had little to no memory of the place and probably for good reason since he'd been looking into contract killers on the internet already. Valsharess giggled, still hovering in front Casca as her hand was kissed. "You're a flirty flirt!" She wiggled her tiny toes but didn't blush or seem embarrassed. She grabbed his hand back, instead, and lifted it to kiss herself. "A pleasure too!" rosemilk Dee drew her material even more prissily around her than ever. "The Fleet were good to us," she said. "They nurtured and bore us with what they could muster. Whatever d'you mean havin' a little sump'in against it? I wouldn't presume, but I do think you're a little in turmoil. And - " and this was said with a little sniff - "you haven't even introduced yourself properly to me. I do call that wilful." On the other hand, Cascati was trying very hard not to smile. Pretty and mildly hilarious. (He still wanted a cigarette.) "Well, sweetness, you just kissed my hand. Wouldn't you call that flirting?" TarnishedHalo "Good to us? They booted my a** out! ME!! Can you believe that? ME! I made sacrifices for them!" Not that he could REMEMEBER them but he KNEW he'd had some hardships he'd handled in the name of the Fleet. "Turmoil? If by turmoil you mean 'I will track them down and reassemble their limbs so they ar picking their goddamn noses with their PINKY TOES.'" HIs head was bobbling and he'd risen to stand on top of the chair, one hand on hip and the other waving an accusing finger. Val in the meantime totally ignored Rurik. He'd had similar rants at home and she was immune. She was, though, caught by Casca's hair. "I am not a flirt. I merely duplicatedimitated yooou! BUT!" She said the but loud and dramatically as if she were about to impart an enormously important theory on the meaning of life. The pause dragged on and she hovered around Casca's head, wiggling her fingers... Finally she stopped, "I want to give you braids!!!" So much for philosophical insight. rosemilk Burgundia, on the other hand, was not so familiarly immune to Rurik; she blinked, though, apparently unaffected by Rurik's wanton display of verbal violence. "I surely wouldn't do that," she said calmly. "It will wreck your karma. All of us are soldiers in God's eyes. You should have expected sacrifices. Why don't you just be glad that you suffered a little bit?" Cascati, by now immune as Val to Rurik Burgundia's particular brand of Burgundia-ness, just patted his hair slightly fretfully. "Darling Valsharess," he said. "My hair will simply not braid. I promise you. I've tried it before. It turns out an unholy mess. My hair was just not intended for braiding. Why don't you let me braid your hair? Your hair is beautiful, sweetling. You'd just cry if you tried to put those pretty little hands to my own." Also, you just did not touch The Hair, no matter who you were, but Val didn't know that. TarnishedHalo "Karma? Oh screw that." Rurik tossed his head and pressed his bangs again. His third eye was still staring at Burgundia though he wasn't really looking at her with the other two at all. "God can bite my a** too. If the b*****d even exists.. or even gives a s**t enough to pay attention. You know he probably is just flicking us around and laughing cause he's an a*****e!" Rurik looked at the ceiling and yelled it as if God would hear him. Val smiled again. "Oh I can braid everything.. except for Gallyshinyum. She's metal so it's hard. Difficult. Impossible and ulikely. Yes. Noone has braided my hair before. it is much too short! it can't fall in pretty locks. Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your wavy blue and silver hair!" Val didn't know the hair wasn't touched so she just hovered behind Casca and stuck her hands in it. Luckily, in the real world, Val would have made a good hairdresser because when she started to run her hands through it, it felt like one of those really pleasant scalp massages you got when they shampooed you in the beauty salon. "You can braid my hair if you want!" Of course.. now she was occupied in satisfying her lust for hair molestation. rosemilk ((And in the other room...)) Rose was too occupied watching M to realize Antipov was watching her; she was obviously ill at ease, hands twisted in her lap with her fingers interlocked, fiddling with a garnet ring on her ring finger in an action that seemed to be long habit; it wasn't in the style of a wedding ring, but it was on that particular finger. She bit her lip a little; and only then did she turn her head to Antipov, giving him a rather weak little smile. rosemilk It was only the fact that Valsharess' hands were, in fact, very gentle and skilled that prevented Cascati's already frayed temper from making him attempt to flip her over and pin her to the ground: he tensed, but then relaxed, her small hands so far not tangling up what was his pride and joy. "You're good, sweet," he said, not with a little surprise. Good hands were a beauty and a joy forever. "You have, mmm, nice fingers." If Dee had seen any of this, of course, she would have immediately berated her brother for being so impertinent with a girl he'd just met; fortunately she was still taken up with Rurik. "God can hear everything you say without yelling, y'know. And if God is - flicking you - that's an awful word - then She has a plan for you. You have to fear Her, you know. Don't you think She's just testing you?" Her crimson eyes were alight as she sat up, now, intent on Rurik, very nearly excited and pink-cheeked. It was a big change from her sleepy-eyed controlled disinterestedness of before. "Don't you think that, surely, you're going through all this pain for something?" Feien "So," said Antipov, semi-conversationally. "How do you know the Science Director?" He drummed the fingers of his left hand on the edge of the table; his right arm was thrown over the back of his chair. Over by the kitchen counters, M made little popping noises with his mouth and poured the coffee. He was very exacting about it, adding coffee to the cups until they were all at precisely equal levels. rosemilk Rose relaxed slightly, leaving off the ring, which was starting to make reddened indentations in her skin as she fiddled with it. She still, however, kept throwing worried looks in the coffee's direction. "Djerod? I met him when Em took me home with her, after I found her in the Library... With Corvus and her Grimorum. And after Zevulon, too. I used to go and babysit with him. We'd have tea together. He's lovely. He was always so kind to me. Clever, too," she gabbled slightly, knowing that Antipov knew all this already. "He could talk for hours about anything." TarnishedHalo "Your hair is shiny! ANd nice and thick and soft. if I was in the habit of doing things at the displeasure of others I may shave it in your sleep and make it into a wig!" She giggled but you really couldn't tell, by her demeanour, if she'd really do it. "I think you might kill me if I did that!" As if it were the funniest thing. She continued to put his hair and run her fingers through it and scratch lightly over his scalp. "I'm so glad you don't have dandruff... snooowy hair!" ..weirdo. "Oh so now God's a chick? Well guess what. I think god is an ambiguous ******** homeless person." If only cause God was not allowed to be prettier than him. "And yeah.. I'm suffering for EVERYONE ELSE'S ENJOYMENT!" he tossed his head like the endless victim. "I'll get you all! Just wait!" "You threatening people again?" Amongst the screaming a very tall and skinny adult woman came into the headquarters. She was sporting a bristling black mohawk and blue rimmed glasses as well as a black tanktop, spiked belt and matching bracelets, and some high and sexy combat boots. "YOU ARE TOP OF THE HITLIST b***h!" Rurik spun and pointed but Halo only laughed a bit. She spied Val doing a massage and made a small finger wave. "Haaaallo HALO!" Val lifted a hand to wave and point. "Big people in there!" "Watch out for her cornrows, man.. they're vicious." The 'human' woman winked at Cascati before making her way to the kitchen. She'd told them she might come by hoping to meet some other adult owners. She.. really knew almost none. Feien Though Antipov may have known it, his emotional conclusions were almost precisely opposite Rose's so it was like hearing the information afresh. "Tea is a common theme in their family," he said, and actually seemed to glower slightly at this statement. Then, with definite annoyance, he half-shouted, "Jonathan! Stop doing that!" M looked up from where he was meting out coffee in individual drops and frowned. "Fine, if you want the levels to be uneven then I am taking the cup with the most coffee in it." He sounded decently angry in response. "No objections," said Antipov, looking at Rose. rosemilk Burgundia's face lost the excited, intense expression, going back to blank sleepiness; she lay down again, as if exhausted by the conversation, and wrapped herself once more in the rose-red material and closed her eyes. "You're going to hell," she told Rurik pensively. "Will ye not be pious? I, indeed, am a faithful messenger to you... so shew piety towards Allah and obey me. She is the Sublime, the Compassionate." Cascati's response to Halo was to give her a slow wink back in return; crazy psycho though Valsharess may have been, she had magnificent hands. "Please don't shave it off, my sweet darling. I'm sort of fond of my hair. It's a little pretty, don't you think? I'd have to kill you, I really would, and then I'd be sad, because you're beautiful." rosemilk "No objections here either," she said meekly. "Caffeine's bad for you. It can interfere with your sleeping patterns. Um." Rose twisted her hands again, and then cocked her head at Antipov. "Have you known Dj... the Science Director for very long? I... I haven't, but, well, I haven't been here for very long... It's a little odd to be back in the military again. Um. Well, I wasn't a big part of the military when I was in it, but... Um... I'm sorry, I'm awful at talking." Feien "Fifteen years," said Antipov, his mind stripping down Rose's ramblings to the bare essentials of her question. "And Jonathan never sleeps." "Never," echoed Dr. M, shuffling over with the first two cups of coffee in his hands. He looked as if he was about to put them down but then stopped and frowned. He looked at Rose. He looked at Antipov. And without putting the cups down he turned around and started to walk back to the coffee maker. Antipov groaned and tilted his head back, closing his eyes against the brightness of the ceiling lights. When he tilted his head forward again a moment later he seemed to be in a better mood. "Believe me," he said, "you cannot possibly be worse than Dr. M is at conversation. Or at serving coffee." He actually almost smiled at that, the right side of his mouth twitching upwards. TarnishedHalo Halo peered around the corner and peeked into the kitchen and, surprise surprise, saw three people she didn't recognize in the least. She thought for a moment that her current getup might give a bad impression, then realized that she didn't even care. "Hola strangers.. Am I crashing a party? " "Been to hell." Rurik smikred and his yelling was suddenly down to a sweet tone. Deceptively so. "They kicked me out. Said I was too much man for them." He flashed Burgundia a very charming smile. He could probably get what he wanted if he wanted to.. but his temper was so bad that he usually never got to follow through. "I wouldn't look good in a pretty wig!" Val smiled and kept massaging. "But you're as sweet as something reaaallysweet." She scritched seductively at his head, though was clueless to know it was seductive as if she tried it deliberately she'd probably fail. "Like candy! Minus the rotting teeth properties..." Her hands paused and she leaned over his head, looking at him upside down and kissed him on the tip of the nose. ..... only because she could! rosemilk "Believe me, my coffee is pretty awful," Rose said, perking up to Antipov's first little smile. Maybe he wasn't so hideously scary after all. "It's bad, bad stuff. I can only make instant, first of all - " She looked up at Halo in the doorway, surprised - she hadn't seen the other woman before, either - but relaxed at the girl's friendly demeanour, and waved. "Hi! Um, no party, I promise. Or crashing. We're just having a cup of coffee. I'm Rose." rosemilk "The Satans did not come down with them," Burgundia said, eyes still closed. "It was not befitting for them, nor were they able. They indeed are far removed from hearing it... And you're not a man, you're a boy." One of her eyes was cracked open. "But you do have a nice smile." The nose-kissing was too much for Casca; he broke out laughing, leaning forward to tangle one of his own hands in her short bright hair. Crazy. Ate too much sugar, probably. Uncomplicated. Just so. "You can rot my teeth any day, dearling," he promised her. "You can give me caries and make my molars fall out." TarnishedHalo "This is ALL man, lady.. and sexy. That's what. Smile.. Hair.. triplet eyes. All sexy man right here." Oh his tone was firm, confident and without a doubt. Anyone crossing that opinion would get a piece of his angry and violent little mind. "Anyone would kill for this and to BE this." Rurik flipped his braid and took off into the air with lazy wing flaps in search of a reflective surface to look at himself in. Val let her hands out of Casca's hair and did a tiny buzzing acrobatic (slightly awkward) upside down flip twist in the air so she was in front of the other feien. Her hair had twisted a bit in his hand but she didn't seem phased since she'd adjusted herself so it didn't hurt. It was all flopped in her eyes though. The gold earrings in her ears jingled a bit, 2 in one side and one int he other. They were very cute on her. "Well it's physically impossible for me to rot your teeth, sillychilly. But the sentiment is understood and appreciated!" Feien "There isn't even any alcohol," said Antipov bitterly. He waved his hand at the chair on his right, indicating Halo was welcome to sit there if she liked. "We have coffee," said M, only slightly more diplomatic, finally returning with two different mugs of the stuff. He set down one mug by Rose and another by Antipov and then shuffled back to get more, saying, "There isn't enough for anyone else," even though there seemed to be five whole cups sitting on the counter by the pot. Antipov glanced at the dark liquid, amost black. "You'll wish you had made instant," he said to Rose. rosemilk "Vanity is one of the seven deadly sins," Burgundia muttered to herself, cat-stretching, long white arms sticking out of the red material before she curled them back in. "You're still going to hell." Cascati admired Valsharess' earrings; he gave one last ruffle of her hair, fingers trailing across to lightly touch her ears and the golden pieces of jewellry, before dropping it at his side. "I don't know, darling. You're very sweet. I can feel my teeth rotting already." rosemilk Rose took the cup in her hands, fingers curling around it for the warmth; she took a deep breath of the coffee fumes, which had an exquisite aftertaste like petrol. Then she took a deep breath and recklessly took a long mouthful of it. After a few heartbeats, she swallowed. Slightly paler than normal, she looked up at M and gave him a slightly crosseyed smile. "It's not bad," she squeaked, which was pretty much the height of lies in the name of politeness. Even worse, she took another sip, which showed her masochism. TarnishedHalo Halo flashed everyone a charming grin and made it to the chair next to Antipov in a few long strides. She dropped down into it in an unladylike manner and didn't even seem to care. She sat with her legs wide and hooked a thumb under her spiked belt in a habitual gesture. She was very very comfortable around good looking/evil/intimidating men. She preferred them, really. "Nice to meet you Rose. I'm Halo Concord. My husband Wren and I both are bonded to feien. I've got the noisy screaming queen out there.. and the weird one with the earrings." The comments were out of complete love though.. ... ... really. "No booze? Not a fun party at all. We could use some Bailey's in the coffee." She was the type of woman who talked to people whether she knew them or not. She didn't get nervous or intimidated easily. "It's alright about the coffee.. unless those five cups are taken, I'm all good." She winked.. but it was at everyone. "Oh baby, I AM a sin." He found his reflection in a window and primped and turned to admire himself. "Hell should be fine. I'll find your a** there I'm sure. Anyone so strongly drowning in faith is obviously doing something wrong." Valsharess shook her head when Cascati's hand left her hair and made her earrings jingle more. "Do you like my earrings? They are gold. real gold. Gallygallyum pierced me and now she wants to pierce Rurik's imaginary nipples! She said if he doesn't have any.. she'll make some! I think it would be great!" There was a groaning 'Why me...' from Rurik's direction. Feien "Admiral Pavel Antipov, Fleet Director of Intelligence," said Antipov, finally sitting up in a more gentlemanly positions (which, unbeknownst to him, made him that much more uncool in Halo's eyes) and extending Halo his hand. "That over there is Dr. M, my associate. I am certain he will be persuaded to allow you one of his cups of coffee." "No!" came M's strangled reply as he fetched two of the five remaining cups of coffee. rosemilk "How dare you use such language with a girl?" It was small and angry now, Burgundia sitting up, eyes slits and accent thickening in her distress. "Y'all just love indulging in your own hubris, don'tcha? Why, I guess you think you're somethin' else. Let me tell you a little sump'in sump'in, which is this: you're not more than a little piece of devil dust in the eye of God. You ain't so important, you little c**k o'the walk - " "Dee, dear," Casca soothed, "don't get so riled, he doesn't know any better." "Why, I oughta - I oughta - ooooh," Burgundia said, and flopped down again. He gave a shrug, and turned back to Valsharess. "I do like your earrings, darling. I almost wish I had mine done. In silver, though, gold's a bit crunchy. Do you think she'd do mine?" Rose would probably s**t herself. TarnishedHalo Halo slapped her hand into Antipov's as if he were an old buddy. She was well practiced in hand shaking and hers was very confident and firm. "Pleasure! Fleet people eh? Now I feel all spiff and important." She gave him a charming grin too. The fact he pulled himself up impressivley made her think in his own stuffy way that he was slightly cute... in a way that was trying too hard. "It's okay Doctor. If you don't want to part with the prescious joe.. I am really fine. Nice to meet you though." She watched the little man with a smirk. He was odd. Awesome. "Oh what? You think you're ******** special cause you are a girl?" Rurik spun and narrowed all three eyes. "You one of those b***h-a** feminist hoes who acts like they are all equal but then wants special treatment? Yeah screw THAT s**t. You want equal treatment then you can take my s**t just like all the wussy men can.." He spun to the mirror again and rubbed his chest, "And no crazy mendel is going to mar my manly chest of perfection.." He pursed his lips like Zoolander and gave his reflection a sultry look. Valsharess's eyes lit up, "OH! She will pierce anything! Man woman or child! Dog bird mendel or feien! As long as she can stab it with something sharp.. She is happy! She's learning how to do tattoo's too! But she hasn't found a gun small enough for her hand.... Silver can be done.. yes.." She drifted off in though, muttering to herself under her breath, "Yes!" She met his eyes again with a large grin. "Definitely can be done!" Feien The handshake slightly unnerved Antipov and he quirked an eyebrow. Quite a strong grip. Dr. M deposited the first of his two cups on the table. Antipov said, "Jonathan, you do not need five cups of coffee." The creepy little doctor was clearly torn by this. He started to shake slightly. With a supernaturally calm voice, Antipov told him, "You have two cups here on the table and three cups on the counter. If you go back to the counter I will give our guest one of the cups here. If you stay here I will take one of the cups from the counter. You cannot be in both places at once." The shaking quieted as M weighed the options. Finally he pushed one of the cups across the table towards Halo. "Fine. But I'm not getting you any sugar." Conveniently, the sugar was already in the middle of the table, one of those collections of packets that gave you three choices of artificial sweeteners and two "real" sugars. What the point of Dr. M's threat was only he knew. He shuffled off to retrieve two more of his cups. rosemilk Well, Gallium sounded slightly psycho, but Cascati was used to that. He touched both of Val's ears lightly. "Two holes in one ear and one in the other," he said thoughtfully. "I'd be most grateful to her if she could, my darling. I've always fancied piercings." And cigarettes. He still wanted cigarettes. Burgundia stood up stock straight, trembling, shedding her cloth from her hair and her body; she took to the air immediately and - before Casca or anybody could stop her - paused before Rurik to slap him through the face. "How dare you say that? How dare you! How dare you - you deny the feminine - you mundane little pest! How dare you, when y'all ain't given me no indication that you ain't in bad danger of screwin' up a sack lunch! How dare you swear at me, you ill-mannered - you ungentlemanly... you misogynistic... you infidelious, you..." Apparently too furious to elaborate, she slapped him through the other side. rosemilk Rose, still sipping her coffee manfully and looking slightly ill, extended her hand to Halo and offered her a smile, taking the mug away from her lips. She looked slightly grateful to not have to drink for a few seconds. "Oh, so you're a Feien bond, too? Mine are the boy with the big hair and the girl with her hair covered up - this is our first excursion out with all of the family." [[ continued ]]
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:44 pm
Orpheros These 'feien' certainly were interesting. They were still chattering amongst themselves, taking no heed of the awkward human pressed against the door. Still hoping to stay a bit invisible for a few minutes, Orpheros glanced around the room she now found herself in. It was fairly similar to every other waiting area she had ever been in. Same chairs, same desk, a hallway leading out of sight, presumably to offices or something. Sarabi had never elaborated on what exactly was inside the building. Something else to find out, apparently. Turning her head back to the feien, Orph observed curiously. She had come in mid-discussion, and had no idea what they were going on about. Piercings? Manners? .. uh, okay. She just raised an eyebrow, not wanting to eavesdrop, but interested, nonetheless. TarnishedHalo "Oh you can come over whenever you want!" Val grinned. "Noone visits. Our house is big and scary.. ormaybe we just don't have friends. But you should come it would be fun. Gallium will get you drunk and jab you with a pin!" She had just caught the slap though and her only reaction was, "WOW!!" She'd never seen a feien slap fight before. "YOU ********.." A worse word was about to come out of Rurik's mouth when he reached back and slapped her right back. Backhanded. And he'd pushed himself up in the air as if he was about to dive bomb her for more. MORE. "CRAZY WHORE!" Halo shook Rose's hand strongly as well. The other woman looked slightly.. unwell. "Oh yeah Val was giving him a scalp massage.. it was cute." Her other hand caught the sliding coffee cup and when she withdrew from her shake with Rose she'd snagged a few packets of sugar and was now loudly shaking them in her hand. She ripped all the tops at once and dumped them into the cup. One sip made her blink, "Man that s**t will curl your toes..." A slight (slight) blush washed over her. "Pardon my.. non-french." Feien "I studied French," remarked Antipov quickly, then shoved his coffee in his mouth before he could accidentally reveal some sort of more embarassing personal information like how his mother had ironed his underwear even in college. M returned with the next two cups of coffee, leaving only one last cup to retrieve. "Does anyone want cream?" the doctor asked. ((PASHA PLEASE DONT KILL ME OKAY))rosemilk "Oh, my ******** Jesus Christ, my Mother Mary," Cascati muttered, mildly appalled and wondering what to do; if he was meant to save Burgundia's silly little a** or not. "I really need a cigarette." Looking more appalled and ready to explode that Rurik had called her a crazy whore rather than the slap - though her cheek was already colouring bright red - she shrieked at the top of her voice in fury: noting that Rurik was, however, bigger and stronger, she made the wise decision to turn tail and fly. Not being the fastest creature ever to walk the universe, it was rather like a fleeing snail, which is why when she flew smack into Orpheros's chest it wasn't as boneshattering as it might have been. Seeing that it was a woman and a human, Dee wailed immediately and curled up next to the stranger's collar to try to gain some semblance of safety from Rurik. rosemilk "Me, please," Rose piped up immediately, hoping that dairy product would make the coffee less like something poured into the water supply of a city under siege to make everybody in it die horribly. "I like cream. Even though it's fattening. Um. Not that I'm worried about getting fat or anything, running after Casca is exercise enough... Oh, are our feien getting on? Oh, that's lovely!" Orpheros Her eyes having wandered to a swaying spider in the far corner, Orph was caught seriously offguard by the sudden piff! into her shirt. She jumped slightly, looking around for what might have hit her. "Err, whatthe.. hello?" She looked over and saw a little hand holding onto the edge of her collar. A feien? Had to be.. that spider was still over in the corner. Reaching her hand up to pull the fabric away from her neck slightly to get a better look, she tried to think of something to say to it. "Are you.. okay?" She never did have a great deal of eloquence. It would suffice, though. For now. TarnishedHalo "As far as I saw they were getting on well." Halo smiled over to Rose but must have an iron stomach cause she kept drinking the coffee. "You took french? I did .. a little. Forgot it all. I took some italian too but.. I have 2 italians living with me so I still know a tad bit of that. But mostly I know languages that.. no one else knows..." But she'd prefer not elaborating on that. Rurik was fuming. When Dee fled he'd started looking around for things he could turn into a weapon. "I will get you! Come on big tough lesbo b***h! Why're you hiding!?" Val's eyes were wide and she leaned over to Casca and whispered, "Should I make popcorn?" rosemilk "I'm bein' attacked," Dee said hysterically, "Rurik hit me and I do hope he gets stung by a killer bee and dies and goes straight to hell where the devil will tear out his face and replace it with thorns and please save me ma'am before I do myself a spiritual injury and kill him dead!" rosemilk Rose took another sip of the coffee and was resigned to the fact that at least Djerod would take her to the hospital to get her stomach pumped. "I'm so glad Casca's getting on with another Feien, he's been a little sad lately, I wish he'd lay off the cigarettes... Oh, do you speak Italian, Halo? I spent... I spent about ten years living in Rome." Her smile disappeared. "I think I've probably forgotten all my Italian now." Casca, next to Val, was looking peeved. Popcorn... or save Burgundia? Oh, the decisions. "Is he really going to hurt my Dee, sweet angel? I'm meant to be looking after her." Feien Something very, very dirty entered Antipov's mind and he about choked on his coffee. Foreign languages being a workout for the tongue and all. It was enough to put him out of the conversation for a good thirty seconds and give M the chance to start rambling. The last of his now four cups of coffee in hand, M finally sat down in the space between Rose and Antipov. "I speak French," he said, "And Italian as well. And Russian and German and English and Chinese. And Greek and Latin in their ancient forms. In fact, I have written many papers on the various dialects of each language and traced their origins and evolutions over the course of several centuries. At the moment I am learning Egyptian and Arabic." And he sounded like he might like to go into great detail about his exact studies of all these languages and detail his experiences and uses for them, except he thankfully paused to ingest an entire cup of coffee in one long gulp, which put him out of the conversation for thirty seconds, too. TarnishedHalo Halo actually always had something dirty on her mind. The snorting did make her give Antipov a sidelong glance and smirk before she listened to M's ramble. "Very impressive.. I.. uh.. am married to a writer and we speak various dialects of.. demon?" She laughed as if it were a joke and then sipped her own coffee. It seemed to give the whole table a good period of silence before, not being able to help it, Halo let out a rousing belch. Ok .. she did SORT OF blush now, "..s'cuse me. Better out than in.." And better out THAT hole than the other. "Just so long as he doesn't find any little bits of anything to turn into a knife.." Val gave Casca a reassuring smile. "Oh oh wait.. though.." She stood up again and cupped her hands around her mouth, "RIKKY! YOUR HAIR IS GETTING ALL MESSED UP!" "GOD CAN EAT MY.... DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME RIKKY AGAIN!" He wheeled to stare down Val but the unshakable juvenile girl just grinned. He seethed. And seethed. And dramatically seethed some more. "That b***h is lucky that my looks are more important than her!" He spun back to the mirror and forcefully pulled his braid out and started to redo it. Orpheros "Okayokay, calm down. You'll be fine.. I'm sure this 'Rurik' can be reasoned with." Glancing around the room and finding the feien she was so afraid of flitting about, apparently looking for something, Orph was fairly certain she could steer him away if need be. Leaning slightly to the left in a distracted effort to peek down the hallway, as she was sure she had heard voices, Orph wondered what to say next. She had never conversed with a feien before. Her thoughts buzzed with so many things.. the creature on her shoulder, the 'attacker' of her, the other two feien in the room, whoever was down that hallway, and that damn spider hanging precariously above her head somewhere. She wasn't fond of spiders. Not dangling ones, anyway. rosemilk Rose, rather than being offended, got the giggles; she started snorting into her coffee cup, taking a large mouthful of it to try to stop it, and wishing immediately that she hadn't. "Oh, you're married? That's nice!" Casca didn't see at all what Rurik had to worry about, considering his hair was so much prettier than that fat little braid. "Goodness, somebody forgot to take their hormones. Anyway, my dear, what were we talking about before he tried to molest and kill my sister?" The sister in question, still gulping on Orpheros' hand, was giving Rurik festeringly ugly looks. "He can't be reasoned with, neither. He's a no-good heretical vain woman-hating little... little... and he doesn't know his Ten Commandments!" This came out "Tinkaments!", due to Burgundia's distress. Feien Antipov opened his mouth to say something about the belch but decided instead to reach into the jacket of his uniform and pull out a silver flask. He screwed off the top and poured vodka into his cup up to the rim and then passed it to Halo on his right. Conversationally (since he knew very well Halo was married) he said, "You're married? You'll need this." M just made a disgusted face. "You're diluting the coffee!" he exclaimed. Orpheros Orph put on her most calm face. "Oh, I'm sure he can. Males just get cranky sometimes. It doesn't seem like he's any exception to that." She smiled, hoping to be at least a little reassuring to the obviously distraught feien clutching to her collar. "By the way, what's your name?" rosemilk "Burgundia," the Feien told Orph, obviously calming down a little, patting down her hair and folding up her legs. "Burgundia Lukas-Hein. My brother is Cascati Lukas-Hein and my mother-bond is Rose Lukas-Hein, though in actuality she's not really my mother. Please, I surely didn't mean to be rude, may I have your name?" TarnishedHalo "Yep.. I'm married. Have been for a long time.." She accepted the cup from Antipov and chuckled. "It's really not so bad. At least not Wren and I.. Actually the problem with marriage is more of the family that comes along with it." She took a sip of the 'flavoured' brew and made a slight face but didn't cough or anything awkward. "Not sure if it tastes that much better." She ran a hand through her mohawk and it bristled in an interesting way. "And this won't make the belching any better either.." Any initial embarrassment faded to where she could joke about bodily functions. "Earrings. Silver and gold and you want some from the mendellium. She is crazy and shiny and looks like a pink skeleton inside but she is ok I guess. She likes goth things and has a tattoo and a knife and drinks a lot." Rambleramble. She sat back by Casca and resumed the hair playing, except she did it facing him this time so she had to sit close. Rurik preened and primped and kept shooting dagger eyes through the reflection towards the hiding Dee. Orpheros "It's quite alright! Not rude at all, I don't mind a bit. My name is Orpheros. Orph, if you'd like. Either is fine. I'm fairly new here.. I haven't met any other feien yet, you're the first. It's very nice meeting you." Pausing for a moment to let all of this sink in, Orph took a breath and continued. "Do you know Sarabi and her feien, Hitomi? Sarabi is the one who introduced me to this place. Well, she told me how to get here anyway." rosemilk "I'm divorced!" Rose piped up helpfully, hopefully holding her cup out in case that put her in the classification to also get alcohol. Coffee dilution sounded appealling at this point in time. Also, it was a disinfectant, which should remove the possibility of having to get her stomach pumped. "And I know what you mean, Halo. In-laws are just the worst." Casca removed the problem of Val having to raise her arms by lying down and putting his head in her lap, which was comfortable and attractive, since this way he had a close-up look at her chest. Gallium sounded even crazier than Val, but Val's piercings looked clean and well-done, so he wasn't particularly worried. "Silver, I think. It'd suit my colouring. Is she your sister, darling?" Feien The silver flask was passed to Rose, to M's considerable horror as it meant one less cup of pure coffee. The poor doctor whimpered sadly and fingered his second cup. "I was married," said Antipov darkly. Whether that meant he was a widower or divorced, it was hard to tell. He took a good long sip of his coffee and waited for the flask to be passed back to him so he could freshen his cup. rosemilk "I'm very pleased to meet you indeed," Burgundia said seriously. "And I'm afraid I was just transferred, so I haven't met many people yet, but I wish I surely was the acquaintance of y'all. Maybe my bond would know them better. Do you have a feien, Miz. Orpheros?" rosemilk Rose tipped a measure of vodka into her mug before passing the Director back the flask, leaning over Halo's lap and giggling at her apologetically before straightening up. The coffee didn't taste better, but it tasted less like coffee, which was good. "Well, I guess Halo's the only one out of us who's still in the bonds of holy matrimony." TarnishedHalo "Oh I sold my soul to this marriage... " She laughed a little. Joke? maybe. "But I am happy. No natural children of our own. But 5 adopted boys, 3 feien and a mendel.." She fanned herself. "It's.. slightly stressful. Along with Wren being a writer.. and me running the sex shop in town.." Oh did she let that slip? She wasn't even buzzed yet. "You were married Director?" Val ran her hands in Casca's hair comfortably. it was much better this way. "Sister? No. Simon is my father. I don't know if I have sisters. We don't use those terms in our house. I suppose in the way of adoption she may be but I don't think Gallium would like referring to herself as my sister." Rurik moved himself closer to Val and Casca but not too close. Just so he could eavesdrop on conversation and make rude comments if need be. rosemilk "You're Simon's daughter?" That was a slight head trip, considering. How did Simon get a hot daughter? Cascati was beginning to relax, boneless, as she combed and weaved through his thick hair. He loved having his hair played with. "You know he lives with us, dearling? My bondmate taught him how to knit. I had no idea he was your father." Orpheros Orph smiled and her face seemed to brighten a little. "Not yet! I do have a feien on the way though. I'm not sure when I'll receive it but I am very excited and can't wait for it to arrive. That's part of the reason why I'm here in the first place. Sarabi thought it best I stop by and familiarize myself with everything before getting my own feien. Something about adjusting better, I think." Feien A sex shop...? That explained it. Antipov gave a small sniff (which sounded approving) and said wistfully, "A long time ago. Another lifetime. We were young and in school and very much in love. Then the Revolution. After I was arrested she ran off with someone else. I don't blame her. It is very cold in Russia." Antipov refilled his cup with vodka up to the brim. The mixture was now a light shade of brown, resembling more weak tea than any sort of coffee. rosemilk Burgundia was making herself comfortable on her perch. "I'm glad you're being so thorough, Miz. Orpheros. You're being very industrious about being a bondmate-to-be. I'm sure your feien will appreciate it when he or she arrives. It helps make contact. Do you know the name of your feien?" rosemilk "It sounds like you were young and romantic," Rose said, rather nostalgically, and took a big mouthful of her coffee: it was beginning to give her the giggles already, which was never a good sign, as her shoulders had started shaking when she'd discovered Halo's rather fun profession. "I suppose those things always work out like that. I'm sorry." TarnishedHalo "Oh.. I'm sorry about that.." She didn't know whether to feel bad.. or snort at his statement. She did draped a long arm acorss the back of his chair and squeeze his shoulder in one of those half-a-hug-but-not-really-one-at-all before she went back to the drink. "What happened with you Rose?" Before she was too wasted to speak. "He lives with you!?" Val's eyes lit up and she grinned big. "Really? Oh can I come visit! Simon-father is my favorite! I only met him for a minnute before KABLAM. ANd I haven't seen him since we all got drafted!" Rurik watched them and made a gagging noise, "Get a room!" Orpheros "Aww.. thank you, Burgundia. Very nice of you to say so. I at least think it will be nice to get to know some of the other feien beforehand to be able to introduce them to mine when it comes. I don't know its name though.. I suppose I'll have to find that out when it arrives." The feien was more relaxed now.. she didn't seem to be so stressed over her 'attacker' anymore. Noticing now that some time had passed since her entrance, Orph shifted her weight from one foot to the other. "Say.. do you mind if I sit down? My feet are getting a bit tingly." Feien Antipov wanted to hear this, too. He sat forward in his chair, not bothering to conceal his interest in Rose's answer. Only M seemed unconcerned as he plowed his way through to his third cup. rosemilk "My husband was a jackass," Rose said complacently, a mouthful of vodka having been more than enough for her to start using rude words like 'jackass'. "He was the biggest jackass in the world. Jonas was thirty years older than me and he was mean as a bag of nails. I used to call him Captain Ahab." At this, she got the giggles again. Casca gave a languid middle finger in Rurik's direction before smiling up at Val's obvious joy: "You can come visit any time you like, dearling. I'm sure he misses you terribly and you and Rose and he can knit, or talk, or something. And, of course, I'd always like to see you, ma poulette." rosemilk "Of course not, if you're feeling poorly," Dee said officiously. She gave another rude look in Rurik's direction, but as he was now more taken with Casca and Val, she relaxed even more. "And I'd be tickled pink to meet your feien when they arrive. I think it's important to touch people so you can see how they live and breathe. When you get your feien, please come and visit Rose and I. We'll make you feel right at home, I'm sure." Feien Immediately Dr. M slammed down his now-empty cup of coffee and began to recite in his gasping, halting, and ultimately monotonous way: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little..." rosemilk " Exactly," Rose said triumphantly. "If his heart had been a cannon, he would have shot it, all that stuff, thank you very much Herman Melville. Anyway, Jonas had been on the opposite side of me in the war, and he never let me forget it once. We were married... six years? Anyway, to cut a long boring story short, he lost interest in me once I'd given him a son, so he can rot in hell for all I care." She dimpled at all of them and took another mouthful. TarnishedHalo Halo stared at Dr. M and then busted up laughing. She didn't mean to be rude but she couldn't help it. He was so bizarre! He should hang at their house! "That... ahah... umm sucks Rose.." She meant to sound more sympathetic but.. it wasn't working! Val grinned at Casca. "It would be spiffing. Spectacular. Fantabulous. Extrariffic to visit and see Simon-father. I don't know if he misses me but it would be a nice thought, if one like that sort of thing, to think so!" Val's face got thoughtful suddenly at all of Casca's flattery. "Are you just going to use me for the sex?" Rurik exploded in laughter. Feien M kept going oblivious to the conversation around him. "...It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet..." Antipov merely looked immensely unhappy. "You shouldn't laugh at him," the director said. "He can't help it." When he drank, the vodka burned far more than the temperature of the original brew. He tipped the last of what was in the flask into his cup with a frown. Orpheros "I'd love to! I'm sure the bloom would like to as well," she said, chuckling. She doubted the bloom would convey its emotions -that- much either way, but ah well. For the sake of conversation. She glanced around and made her way to one of the chairs lining the walls of the waiting area. Choosing a chair a polite distance from the other two feien she had yet to meet, Orpheros sank down into it, one leg under the other, as she so often sat. She draped her arms over the sides of the chair, as there was no one around to really impress with good posture. Looking over to the other feien, Orph spoke sideways to Burgundia with a hint of amusement. "What do you suppose they're talking about?" rosemilk Rose giggled again and waved Halo off. "Oh, it was a long time ago. It doesn't matter any more. I'm very, very, very happy where I am now. I like this place. I have fun here. And I have feien to love and..." She almost said that Djerod was hot, but she wasn't that drunk. "So, Director," she said happily, reckless with liquor, "have you got anyone special on the sidelines? Secret girlfriend?" Casca was momentarily speechless for the first time in his life, an occasion that should be recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records; ruefully, he knew that for once, he had been totally and utterly outfoxed. He gave Val his most dazzling, melt-at-the-knees smile, which was pretty staggering, considering. "No, darling," he said finally. "I was thinking about using you for washing my hair as well." rosemilk "I don't know," Burgundia said, mildly prissy and displeased. "Cascati's probably being a rake again. He's a bit of a charmer, Miz. Orpheros. He really shouldn't be so close to Valsharess without a proper chaperone. He's probably telling her how pretty she is or something. She is surely very pretty." TarnishedHalo "Yeah rose.. Before wren men basically RAN from me." Halo snorted a bit but then became very interested in the Director answering the other woman's question. Rurik was still laughing, holding his belly with all three eyes shut. His little wings quivered with every laugh. Valsharess could amuse him when the time came. By the time he'd finished laughing, Casca had recovered his speech too. "well.. at least he's honest Val.." Rurik commented with a grin. Valsharess, as always, smiled back at Casca but was unphased. "Honest yes! That is good because I would like to wash your hair.. and style it.. and use you for the sex too!" Rurik fell out.. again. Honesty was beautiful. Feien "I think you've had enough," said Antipov, reaching out across the table and pulling away Rose's cup. The cup was empty. Antipov wondered what percentage of the thing had been vodka and what percent coffee. "...Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall northward. What do you see? - Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks..." Sharply, Antipov said, "Jonathan, drink your coffee," and Dr. M was successfully disengaged from his rather tedious recitation of Moby d**k. Then Antipov asked, "Would anyone like more actual coffee?" He hoped Rose was so drunk she would not notice he had failed to answer her question, and Halo polite enough to not press the issue. Orpheros "I see.. " Orph had a thoughtful look on her face, logging this information in her memory in case she needed it later on. She shrugged and shifted her focus from the pair. "So.. uh... oh! Who is your bond again? Rose-something? Where is she? Sarabi's also the only bond I've ever met.. I'm definitely very new to the whole feien "scene." Does she have other feien besides you?" rosemilk "You didn't answer," Rose said triumphantly, blue eyes a little too bright. "That means you do. That's not fair. And I haven't had anything, I'm not drunk. I suppose it's not fair if I don't tell a secret too. I'll tell you a secret, then you tell me yours. Okay, here's mine: Djerod has the cutest man-butt I've ever seen, which is saying something, because you better believe I've had more chicks than Ron Jeremy in my time, I was swimming in hot babes before I was married. Okay, now you tell us who you like!" " Ma poulette," Casca said gravely, "I think this could be the start of a beautiful relationship." Honesty was beautiful. rosemilk "She has my older brother, Cascati," Dee said promptly. "He's the one lying in Valsharess' lap. I'm the youngest thus far. My bond's Rose, and she's in the kitchen with Director Antipov, who's the head of this unit. I was transferred to her a few days ago." Feien "There is no one at the moment!" said Antipov, a little hotly, just the way a person who's embarassed that they're alone and forty might say it. And Dr. M, adorable little psychotic M, who had not had one single drop of alcohol, immediately said, "Pavel loves Verine." Antipov's mouth fell open.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:19 pm
Things were different around here. Quite different.
“Go get me something to eat..” Rurik waved his hand at Valsharess in the most dismissive of ways. That’s how it was now.
“What do you want? Bread? Cheese? Cheese and crackers.. A cracker.. like New Years! It’s just passed. I know you know but it was so fun wasn’t it?!” Val grinned and flitted about Rurik’s hair while she braided it for him. “Your hair is so pretty!”
He was infuriated with her. He always was, but he had moved on from yelling at her all the time once he’d found out that Val was practically the most frictionless personality he’d ever come across. Is that why they had relocated him here?
“Food. Please..” His whining tone had dropped an octave so she’d know he was serious. He was already annoyed enough with the low thumping music coming from Gallium’s area of the room.
“Yes Master!” Val giggled. He was funny. She zipped up to his hanging home and disappeared inside.
Things had changed around here. He’d insisted on his own quarters in this place as far away from the women as possible. It resulted in his own personal birdhouse, sizable, hanging from the ceiling. Kojak shared the floor area with the girls but he hadn’t seen him recently, really.
Valsharess infuriated him but she was useful and knew people.
Gallium was an absolute wench.
The woman he was bonded too was not so abhorable but he was sure to make her think he hated her… wouldn’t want her to start thinking she could get away with things with him.
The man in the house had gone. He’d found out it had something to do with one of their sons. He was disappeared and he’d left the wife with the kids. Rurik made sure that the woman heard his opinion.
”Chauvinistic b*****d. Probably off with another woman. You should leave his a**.”
She’d gotten so mad.
The whole situation left the house in a tizzy. Rarely a smile or a laugh.
Of course then there was Valsharess…
“What are you-“ His demand was cut short when he was bombarded from above by a butter section a cracker. A giggle followed from above.
“YOU HORRID b***h WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING I JUST DID MY HAIR!!!”
Valsharess giggled more. “It wasn’t me! It was a BUTTERFLY!!! Butter.. Flying.. EEHEHE!”
Oh.. Oh it was on.
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