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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:59 pm
Waving, she smiled shly. "Hi, Ethan." She smoothed out the front of her tank top. "Whatchu doing out here? Bax iz givin' me lessons... and feedin' Istu." She grinned, the babe was rather cute. Hoving in midair, she curled her legs back, flying closer towards Ethan to get a better look. "Hmm, nice ta meecha." Her grin was almost mischievious.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:09 pm
Ethan blinked as Aphrodite addressed him, blinking once or twice as though to make sure he wasn't just hallucinating. Truly, there were still some things he just couldn't get used to.
"Pleased to meet you," he said, smiling and inclining his head politely.
Stifling a laugh, Len grinned at Aphrodite and waved a hand around airily.
"Huntin' fireflies, of course," she said easily. "I was a baby las' summer, so I've never really seen 'em before." Looking around for their magic teacher as he was mentioned, Len spotted him and waved.
"Heeeey...he's got a kid? Is he a Mishap?"
Ethan glanced over curiously, waving. Wait....were those cat ears?
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:18 pm
Staring blankly at Ethan, he waved back. Was that a human? It was awfully rare to see something fully human, even in gaia the magical culture melting pot. God, it was turning into miami.
Istu, giggled a bit, kicking his legs and wriggling out of Bax's grip, wel... trying. "Daaah, doh! Daaa, doh!" He demanded, wiggling in place looking rather frustrated.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:29 pm
"He's not a mishap, he's a fawn. Have you ever heard of a saytr?" The wasp, turned to look at Lenore. She turned her head to look at Ethan, boy was he spacey.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:36 pm
"A satyr...huh....ummm...oh! Yeah! They're these Greek guys that're half goat and like to chase after pretty girls," Len said, pleased to remember the story from one of Crow's many mythology books. She glanced over her shoulder at the little one, grinning slightly. "He's cute."
Trying his absolute hardest to get past the fact Len was deep in conversation with a faerie-wasp child, and that he in fact was the only pure human thing in most likely a five mile radius, Ethan picked up the firefly jar and pointed a little awkwardly towards the cat folk and his little charge.
"Let's go over there, Len, there's more light, and you can talk to your friend," he said.
Len nodded, following him willingly.
"So, whatcha been doing, 'Dite? Blow anything up?" she asked, her question completely innocent.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:45 pm
Baxterfullous sighed, placing Istu down on the ground. "There are you happy?" Making a face at the reindeer fawn.
Istu nodded and crawled along the ground for a moment, watching the fireflies go by. "Pree!" He squeeled. the fireflies on the other hand decided the loud child was a bit too upsetting and flew in the opposite direction of him. "Pree!" He called out, sitting looking back at Bax he held up his arms. Jumping up and down in place he made the motion of wanting to be picked up. "Uh! Uh!"
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:51 pm
"Kiinda." She wriggled her nose in response to Lenore's defination on Saytrs. "Fawns, are the nicer.. uh, PG rated version?" Was there a btter way to describe Fawn? Yes. Did she want to? No.
The wasp blinked, thinking for a moment. "Blow anything up? Unless you count the fiasco of making mom breakfast... I don't think os.. though on my mom's behalf she blowing chunks farther than Linda Blair. " she stared blankly for a moment, shudding at the mess. "She's with Salem now, thankfully." God, vomit was so revolting. Twitch.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:57 pm
Len laughed aloud before she could stop herself.
"Ah, jeez, I forgot your mum was pregnant! Sheesh...if it's worse than Exorcist puke..." she trailed off, wincing. "Sorry, 'Dite."
Tactfully ignoring this conversation, Ethan ventured to the catfolk with respectful deference.
"Pleased to meet you, sir," he said politely, smiling slightly. Setting down the jar, his smile grew wider as he got a good look at Istu.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:29 pm
Salem slowly walked in, looking very sick. "H-hey guys..." He had thought better then to leave the home without bathing so he didn't smell, but... "Gods.... I've been taking care of little kids for a long time... I've never had to handle this much vomit all at once... Ugh... The smell..."Cato followed in after his father, Blank perched on his head and a purple spider plushy in his arms. He looked up at his father for a moment before turning his attention back to the fire flies. He wanted those... He just needed to figure out how to reach them. "Wuzzat...?" He asked pointing up at them.The patch worked rag doll looked up at the fire flies before answering. "Those are fire flies, Cato. They're bugs that light up."The spider Mishap smiled, nodding as he continued to gaze up with his fore emerald double-eyes. "Bugs 're yummy... Fi' fly yummy an'pretty!" He said lightly before noticing a girl he'd never seen before. He eyed Lenor curiously, the left hand of his second set of arms coming up to slip itelf into Salem's larger one."Hey... Look Cato. New people. Be nice and make friends now." The blonde cat-man smiled down at Len sweetly, despite his run-down and very tired look. "My name's Salem. This little trouble maker is Cato and the one sitting on his head is Blank. It's a pleasure to meet you... Um... Len is it? Aph here has told me about you."Promptly Cato held up the bright purple spider toy in his hands, "An' dis iz Coria Liante!" The toddler exclaimed in perfect Elven. How odd... He couldn't speak very well and yet he could bust out with Elven... "You c'n call 'im Cori!" That said, he went right back to hugging the first toy he had ever picked out himself.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:02 pm
Baxterfullous blinked, smiling at Ethan. "His name is Istu.. and I'm Bax. If you want you can take a seat." He gestured towards the empty chair on the opposite side of the small table.
Istu blinked, his brown eyes lighting up at the sight of the glass jar filled with sparkling lights. "Ooo.." He cooed gingerly placing both hands on the side,staring at the contents inside. "Pree." He breathed, looking up he noticed the others. Salem, and the spider mishap known as Cato. He didn't really remember the toddler well, but Salem had a lasting impression on him. "Hee." He waved sweetly at the two, maybe they had candy.
Bax turned his head to look at his nephew, nodding in acknowledgement. "Hullo."
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:06 pm
Aphrodite made a face and sighed, thinking it was best to change the subject. she turned hearing the moans of defeat from Salem, and she waved. "Hey Say. Hey Cato. Hey black. Hey Cor." She lulled to a droan as the "hey"s were getting a bit repitious. "Oo! Len, I found someone I think you'll like his name is Jack!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:20 pm
"Nice to meet you," Len said, smiling at Cato. Waving at the other new people with politeness, Len's eyes lingered on the little spider child a moment more before turning back to look at Aphrodite.
"Jack? Ooooh, sounds cool... I know two Jacks that're really cool, they're not real, though. They're in movies," she said animatedly.
Ethan took the proffered chair obligingly, reclining in a state of eased alterness. His trust of people was slow-coming - he didn't once think that these people would want to hurt him or Lenore, but months of abuse had turned into a lifetime of wariness of strangers.
"A pleasure," he said lightly to Salem and his companions. "I'm, ah... sorry you have to deal with vomit?"
Ew...
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:59 pm
Salem laughed sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. "Yeah... I guess you could say we had a little too much fun on Valentines... The nicatine withdrawl has gotten to the point that it feels like it's eating away at my soul to make up for it." The cat-man sighed sofltly, licking his lips as he craved another cigarette. "Stuff's horrible for you, but the withdrawl is killer. I'd never smoke around Cath or any of the kids though. Sense I'm usually surounded by one, the other, or both I'm up the creek..."
Cato on the other hand had all eyes locked on Len. A smile slooooowly crept onto his lips as he looked at her hair-like feathers. "Mm...."
Blank lowered his voice to a soft whisper. "When she's not looking... Then run as fast as you can..."
The toddler nodded and slowly came closer, making sure to stay behind her. Shifting his spider toy to the crook of his right arm he ever so slowly started to reach up with his main left hand. There were fewer silver ones, but it was the black ones that he liked, finding the color more appealing. Slowly.... Almost there....
"Still... As long as Catherine stays healthy and has healthy babies, it will all be worth it... I still can't get past the fact I'm going to actually be a fath... Cato! No!"
Just as he was about to close his three fingered hand around a rather large black feather he found his wrist snatched up and his hand pulled away. Aww... Busted... The spider Mishap pouted up at his father. "But... Dere pretty!"
Salem sighed and kneeled next to the toddler, wrist still in hand. "Cato, you shouldn't take things without asking, no matter how pretty it is. You could have hurt len if you gust yanked on off her head!"
The toddler whined once more, "But... I wan' i'..."
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:21 pm
"Swee!" He smiled, raising his hand high towards Salem, one hand still pushing down gently on the top of the jar. "Swee!" He waved again, removing his red and white hat from his head and biting into the pom on the back. Chomp!
Baxterfullous figured the lesson was over, sighing he closed the book leaving a small note on it. Looking over towards towards his baby boy, he let out a sigh before standing up and quickly scooping the fawn off the floor.
"Dafff?" He muffled happily, chewing on the end of his hat. He held his hands up to touch Bax's cheeks, squishing them together so he made a silly face.
Sitting down gently back into his chair, Bax let out a small laugh. Using a now free hand to remove the now soggy end of Istu's hat. "You know, hats aren't food." He kissed the top of the baby's head softly. Then he turned to Ethan, it had been a very long while since he had seen a human. "So... are you adjusting?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:33 pm
"Yes, hehe those are my favorite Jack's too." She grinned, her shoulder length magenta hair bouncing with her movement. "Though this Jack is kinda shy." She said flying towards a large bush that was sculpted into the form of an archway.
"Jack?" She called out, looking back and forth around a small fountain.
"Hm." A small noise escaped the ghost's ethereal lips, as he hid behind a statue. Emerging releuctantly, he appeared half manifested, his long brown hair wisping in the nonexsistent wind.
"You ok?" She asked quietly. "This is my friend. Len, 'member I told you about her?"
"Oh. Yes, I'm fine." He said softly, his voice distorted as though he was speaking through water. "Hello."
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