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 Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:06 pm
Visitor?
Eiry slunk closer to the ground of the basement, staring with distrust up at the ceiling where he heard his brother's voice seeping through. He didn't like this business of visitors. Eiry had tried his best to communicate to the rest of his family that he didn't want to see anyone. Isi had tried, Aphi had, and so had Rivener, but now there was actually someone here to see him? Eiry didn't even know anyone who would want to come and see him. Excpet perhaps Gage. But Eiry really doubted that his friend would be there.
With his precious jar in his hand, he drifted upwards, wondering what in the hell his big brother wanted.
So slowly, he lifted himself part way through the floorboards and stared into his brother's eyes. But then he noticed that there was someone else. When he looked around, he saw it to be a girl. Not just a girl, but a frei. He furrowed his brows, not entirely pleased with the idea of having a visitor and then looked back at his brother with pleading woe-bleached eyes.
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:07 pm
Rivener felt horrible when those bland eyes directed that miserable stare at him. He felt like he was forcing Eiry to do something unspeakable, but meeting someone new might be good for Eiry! Besides, Lucia was ghost-like too, maybe they could connect and she might be able to get the minty Frei out of his funk...
"Eiry, hi... This is Lucia, a really good friend of mine. She wanted to meet you! She's connected to ghosts and dead things too, just like you, so maybe you two can, erm... talk?" Riv smiled tentatively, shrugging up his shoulders, squeezing Lucia's hand. He hoped she wouldn't dislike the younger Delaran Raevan.
"...he's not been feeling well lately," he explained again quietly to the cat-girl.
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:18 pm
Lucia jumped a little as a head popped out through the floor, but immediately composed herself. She put on a sweet smile that faded slightly as she took in the visage of the raevan in front of her. He seemed so forlorn. Lucia nodded almost imperceptibly at Rivener's quiet note of his brother's state and gently squeezed Rivener's hand back. Her purple eyes, however, were fixed, kindly, on the raevan in front of her.
So as not to be rude, Lucia "crouched" down, her ribbon curling on the floor neatly below her as she floated at a height between Eiry's protruding head and Rivener's stature. "Hi, Eiry. Josh told me I should meet you, because we are kind of similar," she greeted softly. Her sparkling eyes and winning smile were on display as she hoped to win over the minty green head before her.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:35 am
Eiry cautiously eyed the female frei and her dark wavy hair, inspecting her as he would inspect anything else that was new and strange. His mouth slowly twisted more and more into a frown. He and this girl, similar? That was not true. First of all, this frei was a she and Eiry was not. Second, Eiry was green, she was not. She had long hair while Eiry's locks were short and she had purple eyes and not red like Eiry's. He had pointed ears and she had...Ears that weren't ears, but animal ears, cat ears. Eiry's frown deepened and he sunk slightly into the ground, not particularly enjoying this new "guest". Not only was he definitely not in the mood to entertain guests or even be curious about them, but she was, in no way, similar to Eiry in any way that the frei could see. This made Eiry hesitant and wary, convincing him that she was lying when she said "similar". Connected with ghosts and dead things...Eiry's interest, which might have peaked when he was feeling normal, didn't do anything but give a flutter before it died. Instead, his grip around his precious bottle tightened.
The young despondent frei glanced up again at his brother, asking him with his weary sunken eyes, confused questions about this newcomer. It almost seemed like Eiry was asking Rivener what he hoped to accomplish by introducing him to this other frei. Drifting across the floorboards, the minty forlorn frei scooted near to his brother, his chin almost buried in the floorboards, a rolling head across the varnished wood.
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:26 pm
Rivener just watched, at first hopeful by the way Eiry was looking at Lucia and the way Lucia was speaking gently. The minty Frei soon busted that bubble, obviously displeased with all this and heading for Rivener, demanding explanations from the Scorpion with those large puppy-dog eyes. Rivener sighed and shook his head, not knowing what he should do now. He couldn't very well force Eiry to receive visitors, but he didn't want to tell Lucia to leave either...
"Ah, Eiry, won't you even give her a chance? She's nice! Maybe she can help you, since you two both deal with dead stuff often! Maybe she can say something that will make you feel better, because I surely don't know what to say!" Riv was tired of constantly searching for something that could make Eiry better, failing at every turn.
The Scorpion's shoulders drooped and he glanced back up at Lucia. "Sorry..." That was all he could think to say, not knowing what else he could possibly do. "I'll understand if you want to just go, Lucia. Eiry's... Well..."
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:08 pm
Lucia sighed softly, a slightly hurt look on her face. While she understood that Eiry was down, she did not expect to be ignored completely. Lucia returned to her full height and her fingers slipped loosely from Rivener's hold. Eiry didn't feel like Roux, but he still wasn't open to her.
It never happened that someone or something wasn't receptive to her when he she or it was upset. Lucia originally came to see Eiry for answers about her powers, but now all she had was questions. As Rivener tried to appease his brother, the cat-girl frei's deep purple eyes looked at the floor. She didn't really know what to do. Whenever someone came to her for help, she helped. She didn't understand how someone might ignore another in need. Rivener wanted her to help his brother too. She believed that she could do that and learn about her powers at the same time.
When Rivener's said her name she looked over at him, her eyes sad. The girl's eyes shifted and she stared vacantly at Eiry's sunken head and shrugged her shoulders. "If you want me to go . . . I guess I should." Lucia lifted up her hand and pretended to be looking at her nails while really staring past them trying to figure out what to do. The minty green raevan made it very awkward for the kitten, even if he was only concerned for himself at the moment.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:38 am
"Whu...Ss...Sorry."
The words were soft, almost like a breath and just as hard to hear. Eiry pinched his shoulders up near his neck, giving the illusion that he was hugging himself tight underneath the floorboards. Lifting up ever so gently, he shook his wispy minty hair out of his woeful eyes and looked back in forth between Lucia and Rivener. The jar he was holding was now visible and he hugged it tightly to his chest, letting his red eyes glance downwards to the tin lid.
As much as he didn't care for anything his other family members did to try and cheer him up, Eiry wasn't completely stone-hearted. He didn't like to see Rivener like this, which was part of the reason why Eiry holed himself up in the basement, because he knew that no matter what others would say, he just would not take it to heart. Eiry was deeply disturbed by his discovery and there wasn't anything anyone else could do to make him forget it. Eiry was scared and his mind was locked in its current state.
What was happening now, though, was a breakthrough. Up until now, Eiry hadn't spoken a word to anyone, not even Isi.
"...Sorry."
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:29 pm
Rivener blinked in utter surprise when his brother actually showed up through the floor that much, instead of just ducking back under. The Scorpion's mouth then fell open in shock when Eiry spoke. A slow smile spread on Riv's lips for a moment only to be replaced by a reluctantly jealous frown a moment later. Riv cleared his throat then, settling for a slight pout, crossing his arms. "Well Lucia, seems you already had an effect on him: he hasn't said a word in however long... I guess your charm really works." He didn't mean to sound a little bitter, really he didn't! It's just that Riv had been trying for so long...
"I'll let you two talk then. If you can do anything to help, Lucia, I'd... I'd be really grateful." Smiling softly to take back any sting in his previous words, Riv floated away towards the living room nearby. They could have privacy, but Riv was just a call away if he was needed. As he passed, the Scorpion gave Lucia's arm a slight squeeze of thankfulness, and he passed his hand through his brother's wispy non-corporeal hair in a would-be-mussing of the minty locks.
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:46 am
The cat-frei’s purple eyes followed Rivener as he floated away. She didn’t understand why he suddenly excused himself as now she realized she would have to converse with the unfamiliar and aloof frei. The scorpion actually left her completely unprepared. She didn’t know what was wrong with Eiry and she had no idea how she was supposed to help. ”I -um- I’m Lucia . . .” she paused and then mentally kicked herself. “But you already knew that.” Now that the dark haired girl could actually look at the frei before her, she felt sorry for him. His body and hair were dirt-stained and seemed to have not seen the sun for days.
As her deep eyes took him in, Lucia noticed that he wasn’t looking at her but at the object in his hands. The contents were hidden by the minty frei’s arms and the dirt that had also stained Eiry. She looked at it too, being nosy and trying to see what was in the jar. Whatever it was it seemed to be either making Eiry sad or keeping him from being worse. Lucia bit her lip as she willed herself to be able to see through the arms and dirt that clouded her vision.
Suddenly Lucia gasped as she glimpsed the form of a fairy. A small area of limited dirt coverage right below the lid of the jar almost allowed her to see through. ”Oh my god! Why are you keeping him in there?!” She looked at the frei with a mix of horror and shock.
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:24 pm
Eiry didn't like the fact that his brother had floated away even more so than Lucia felt nervous. Immediately his shoulders tensed up and he sunk back within the wood, slowly floating closer to the wall as if that could possibly offer more safety. He had watched her eyes roll over him, observing his pitiful state before he sunk into the floor and he had seen her eyes linger on the object of his obsession. Immediately, his ruby red eyes hardened and his grip tightened on the jar. He didn't like her reaction. She didn't know what this small form meant to him, she didn't know that this was him and it was he! She didn't understand, like Rivener and Isi and Aphismet, like everyone else, she couldn't possibly understand what this dead corpse of a will-o-wisp meant to him.
It meant death.
And it was that which scared him most, struck him still and killed the life within him, dowsed his light and tied him down, fogged his vision and diluted his thoughts until they were a confused puddle of fears. His mouth pulled itself into a thin trembling frown, his face threatening to cry, and the minty frei mumbled a sound that sounded like, "Me."
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:18 pm
The dark-haired frei was confused. She only knew there was some creature in the jar and Eiry was keeping it there. He even seemed offended that she even saw it. "What do you mean me?" she asked, reaching for any idea of what the green frei meant. Lucia's purple eyes looked kindly towards the half-hidden Eiry and she smiled slightly, trying to figure out what was going on. Was this why he was upset?
She tried to think of anything that might help from experience with spirits, but she couldn't grasp any idea as to what Ery meant. Me. She bit her lip slightly, ran her fingers through her hair and smiled again. Smiling usually helped tense situations. "Do you mean that's yours? Or do -- do you mean it is you?" There we go. Questions usually helped people figure things out. As long as they were answered. Lucia was desperate to figure out what was wrong with Eiry. Rivener seemed to think she would be able to.
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:46 pm
Eiry watched try to struggle decode his single given word into motives, reasons, and explanations. He watched her smile at him, smile as if everything was okay. Well, things weren't okay. Eiry had stumbled across a piece of information that had destroyed his entire interpretation of the world. No longer as it the place molded into his playground, a garden from which he could feast, a place of small adventures and fright...It was changed into something else that wasn't just for him, a place that might even be against him. Or maybe it was a waiting room? Eiry wasn't sure, but he did know that there was an end to it all, and end he couldn't foresee and an end he couldn't prevent. So why did this batty eyed raevan think that it was okay to smile like that when obviously there was so much to be frightened of?
Every smile she gave made Eiry retreat farther and farther away until he threatened to sink underneath the floorboards. It was when she asked her last question that Eiry's brows furrowed deeper than they had before and he vanished underground in an instant. She had found out! Of course, it wasn't any new news since Rivener had ogtten to that same conclusion before. But Eiry, somehow, didn't want any others to know. There was a part of him that wanted to keep that private, or perhaps it was just him being sensitive? Eiry didn't know but he sunk deeper underneath the floorboards back into the musty basement, hugging his glass jar even tighter than before.
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:23 pm
Lucia gasped slightly as Eiry ducked beneath the floor boards, her eyes not moving from where he had been a second before. She bit her lip, her ears twitching as she listened, trying to figure out what was going on. She sighed and looked towards the room in which Rivener had escaped. "Riven-" She cut off short of calling for the scorpion raevan as she realized that she had failed. She was not able to help Rivener's brother. Would he hate her? She liked it when he kissed her. Would he not do it again because she wasn't able to help Eiry.
Lucia braced for the worst, her ears bending back in both disappointment and -maybe - fear?. "Rivener!" she called out, to him with a soft sighing pleading tone. The kitten did feel sorry that she was not able to help Eiry, but at this moment was more afraid of Rivener's reaction. Her eyes searched the floor for a trace of the green hair, maybe floating up to apologize and let her help with -- whatever was wrong.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:59 am
From the living room nearby, Rivener heard his name called out. He floated up off the couch and to the hallway door, finding Lucia all alone with her ears pressed back, looking upset. The Scorpion sighed: so she hadn't been able to magically fix Eiry after all. Red eyes turned down towards the grate that hid the minty Frei.
"It's okay Lucia, you did your best. Come on," he said, motioning for her to come to him. He gave her a short hug and pulled her into the living room. "He's... he's really not well lately, that's all. I was hoping you could-... But that wasn't fair of me to expect that. Don't feel bad." He smiled sheepishly, reaching up to pet at one of her flattened ears, surprised at how soft it was. "It's okay."
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:30 pm
The kitten looked at the frei sadly as she was lead into the next room. "Sorry . . . I really couldn't do anything. You should try to talk to him -- later." Bright purple eyes looked into Rivener's red ones, honestly sorry and a little confused.
Lucia unconsciously nuzzled slightly into Rivener's warm hand as it pet her sensitive ear. "What's in Eiry's jar? He, um, said it was him. . . " The kitten sighed. What did it matter, she wouldn't be able to help, or, at least, the green frei wouldn't let her help. "Nevermind, I guess it doesn't matter. I should probably get going. . ."
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