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Litural and mareike

link http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=13998889
summary: tba

" Nickle how come I don't go to the same school as most of the other kids." Mareike fidgeted with the strap of her seatbelt from the backseat as she spoke. Really it seemed as though almost all the other Society children went to a special school and she, she went to the public school near the house.

Watching Mareike in the rearview mirror Nickle replied " All of the other children who go to that school also went to a special pre-school. You weren't able to go before you grew up and it would have been hard to try and place you in a class at that point becuase you missed a lot of things you should have learned." Like how the society worked and the normal etiquette.

" Why didn't I go?" Certainly Nickle had had time to take her or Penny at least.

Nickle sighed and reached up to adjust his glasses in agitation. " You were a very.. unruly child" he said honestly " You managed your alphabet and numbers well enough but once you'd learned them you weren't keen on trying to learn other things. you were also a bit too active and aggressive for the safety of others." Mareike had been far less rationale then than she was now. Certainly random things still seemed to send her into fits but there also seemed to be a twisted logic to it an rational irrationality if that made sense. she was also slightly better at restraining herself which made it safe for her to attend a public school.

" I'm not smart" Mareike said quietly " Not as smart as them" or she thought, as smart as most of the kids in her class. She'd passed the test to make it into 3rd grade which was right for her age but it hadn't been easy and she always felt like there was so much she didn't know.

" You haven"t had as much stable schooling as they have a lot of it was home done and Penny and I aren't the best teachers. When you've caught up fully to all that you should know then I'll have you transferred ok. " Stopping at a red light her turned round to face his daughter " You are smart Mareike you just need to do some catching up."

Mareike nodded slowly greatfull for the small reassurance " How soon? I want to go to go to school with Teddy.

" Not sure, but if you're willing to do a half hour of catch up work every day after school, after your homework then I'll see about getting you testes after Christmas" The idea seemed sound to Nickle, if Mareike put in the effort to learn what she needed to know he'd get her tested in a few months.

" Ok" Mareike turned her head and stared out the window in her mind thinking about how much less time she'd have for fun in the near future but how much more fun she could have at school with her real friends.

Mareike's eyes narrowed, hers fingers cleaned tight and she shuffled her feet just a few inches to the left. The maroon skinned girl gritted her teeth and swung her tennis racket hard at the incoming ball. * Thwack* The connection was good and the force of it sent the little green ball hurling back to the other side of the court.

Tennis was something Mareike loved, it kept her mind and body active while being competitive. She loved her weekly lessons but it was good to get in extra practice at the children's center, plus it allowed her to spend more time with her new group of friends.

" Too much force Mareike" Carlos judged as he sent the ball back at her and mad her run to the far side of the court. " not enough direction. it doesn't matter how hard you hit the ball if it keeps coming back in a straight line the other person will be able to hit it." Carlos was a teenager older than Mareike, but human and not stronger. Still he usually won their matches becuase she simply couldn't compete with his level of skill. All of diligence speed and wrath's power were no good if she couldn't learn to see past them into the fine art of direction. As she forced the ball to careen back towards's Carlos, Mareike had to admit it didn't look like it was going to happen anytime soon.

Still, the young girl enjoyed bleeding off a bit of energy during the bouts. Mostly she just enjoyed spending time with children of like minds. Those who were active, slightly aggressive and focused on gaining more strength and power.They were the children's guard , the children of the members of the real children of gaia society. They played and fought and trained together, kept an eye out in their own neighbourhoods for trouble and for the older kids patrolled the streets for trouble that they could take care of on their own. By association with their parents they believed Gaia belong to them, they would inherit it one day and they wanted it to be a better place.

Which wasn't to say that they weren't thugs sometimes, that they didn't feel themselves above some of the societies other children or just other children in general. It was just that there were rules that most tried to follow and they tended to stick to themselves leaving others out of the way of their wrath unless provoked. They fought amongst themselves for hierarchy and friends and power but they were still a unit in a loose sense. One day they would simply be the guard, a similar unit comprised of adults, they could and did work alone at times but they needed to know they could count on each other if they had to.

Mareike struggled with rules at times, she was new and competitive and her mind was sometimes running on the anti-thesis to rational. Still, the group was excepting her slowly, helping guide her into the fold and showing her the ropes. It was strange for the young girl but she found she liked most of the group and prefeered to spend her free time with them.

When the match was over Mareike sat down a few feet away in a beanbag chair and wiped the sweat off herself with a towel she's brought for that purpose. Her body had heated up but not become anywhere near exhausted a great trait she'd inherited from Shar and diligence. All around her other children ran and played and wrestled. It was chaos and tense and all in all it felt like home

PD with Ebony
link http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?page=1&t=14164981#171595006
summary: Mareike meets another facility child in a craft store filled with ugly crap.

lets have fun at my house
PD with Adriel
link: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=14226989
summary: TBA

Rain/ snow
giant PD with adhara, ebby, slythor, azubah and duncan
Link:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=14253759
summary: TBA

pd with pepper jr
link http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=14457697&page=1
sumary: cake and wrestling in the halls of the facility, good times for wrath children and angry toddlers

and becuase i don't see a point in wasting posts

PD with ebby and Taylor
link:http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=14394317
summary: Mareike takes her brother rollar skates and meets up with ebony along the way.

Noticing things

Mareike was sitting cross legged on a couch with a binder in her lap. Having passed the test and made it into the society school the maroon skinned girl was working hard to keep her grades up and prove she deserved to be there with her friends, well at least prove she deserved to be in the proper grade. It was hard, the concepts they were learning weren't easy and Homework ate up way more hours of the day than the girl liked. Still she was smarter than before and Mareike liked that, things she heard on the news and read in the newspaper made more sense now, there was a whole world of things to explore when you were smart enough to understand them.

All in all it meant Mareike spent a lot of time at home or here in the guard lounge room reading textbooks and doing homework. She was at least surrounded by friends which was comforting and the fact that all of them respected her personal space, her place in the hierarchy and the fact that she was still a bit awkward about certain things made life a lot easier. Some days she wished she were younger again and more carefree but on others she was grateful for the passing of time and the opportunities age granted her.

The girl's feathers ruffled a little as she struggled with a math problem. So strange math was all formulas and only one right answer, her teachers said it was the only class you could really get a perfect score in becuase you were either right or wrong there was no wiggle room. Mareike would argue that the fact that you could get stuff wrong meant there was wiggle room but she knew it wasn't true. If you knew to use the right formula and added the numbers properly you were never wrong. it was getting the formula right that was the key issue. Some days she just seemed to miss a crucial step and screw it all up.

Time ticked slowly by and Mareike worked on her math problems and chatted with Janice an anthro pokemon girl about a new reality show on television. Both were certain some parts were scripted and that the odds were stacked in favour of the girls becuase certain tasks included grabbing the attention of passersby and girls would use sex appeal to do that better than men could. The was a mild argument over whether that was stacking the odds or just plain cheating on behalf of the girls.

While her main eyes focused on the text of her workbook Mareike's yellow third eye gazed about the room taking in it's other occupants. Although she felt safe in the room it was hard not to keep an eye on other's it was simply in her nature to be wary and watchful.

As it was her eyes spied something that distinctly caught the girl's interest. A couple walking by in the hall talking, while what they said meant nothing to her it was how they moved and acted that had her attention.

The girl walked in front and her partner was a half step behind his eyed were lowered not quite meeting her gaze and she talked to him but his attention was nevertheless on her. it was subtle but Mareike could sense the power between them, the way the female lead and the male followed at a respectful distance, the way her voice spoke to him in a firm, commanding but kind tone and his held respect and reverence.

That, Mareike thought, if I ever like a boy I will settle for nothing less than that.