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Daniel cut out several pictures he found and placed them on a large white sheet of paper. He glued them down in interesting places. He also had cut out random pictures of flowers and also glued them down, but in places between the previously glued pictures. He made sure he covered most of the space between each picture and looked for pictures of plants to cover the remaining spaces. He looked up and saw Nexen over in a corner, not knowing what she could possibly be doing back there. He questioned her slowly so that she could guess what he was saying. "Um, Nexen. What are you doing back there? Do you need any help?"

Vivina giggled as it seemed that Anoki liked her picture. She looked at his own work and she was awed at the way he cut his pictures. The edges were ragged, giving the picture an interesting look and she like that. Guess he didn't like scizzors. She heard him say something and perked her ears up. "I dunno if the magazines have anything I want. Maybe there are some pictures of clouds and hills and islands, but there aren't any pictures of you or Laial or me or anyone in them. Well thats what I think. Photo albums are different, but you can't cut them up unless there are copies, like my mom says!"

She looked over at Laial who had just grabbed a pencil to draw something of his own. She wondered what he'd be drawing and tilted her head a bit before focusing on her own collage again. She flipped through a nature magazine and looked for any picture that related to ibexes, nautiluses, foxes, and sugar gliders. Maybe something that represented the animal's habitat. She found and few and cut them out. Then she looked through more magazines to find more pictures to finish off her collage.

((In the next few days, I probably won't be on as much since my laptop's power cord died and needs to be replaced. The only other computer I can use is my parent's or my brothers. I'll try to keep up with this OPD and others whenever I can at home, most likely at school if I get the chance. sorry for the inconvenience~))

She did draw him, and the other kid too, and everyone. That made Anoki feel slightly less special, but then again, what was he expecting? If he was drawing people he would probably draw everyone too. "It l-looks n-nice," he said energetically, bobbing his head up and down. "I l-like them. M-my m-mom says I c-c-can't c-cut t-things up t-too."

So keeping on his path of scissor avoidance, he grabbed another magazine. There was one picture of a beach that was pretty, but too much water. But there, one with lots of trees! He ripped that one out and stuck it next to the mountain, working intently until he was spoken to.

"Wh-what?" The question didn't make any sense to Anoki. He scrunched his face up, thinking about the two. He definitely didn't want fire. Once he'd gotten too close to the stove and almost burned his hand! Luckily Mahou found him in time, and he just singed a bit of hair. But the feeling wasn't nice at all.

"E-earth," he finally answered, voice thick with uncertainty.

Laial nodded once and began drawing inside the circles. One for air, one for water, and one for earth. He decided against including Nexen because one, the ibex chose her element and two, he didn't feel like it. Why should he? She bit him before, after all...

Oooh, glitter. There must be some excuse to use glitter...he could outline the circles! Quickly scribbling in Ibex's circle, he dragged the paper over to the human adult. "Gli'er please," he demanded more than asked. Curious, he stuck his tentecle into the glitter bottle, pulling it back out after swirling it around. The result was a tentecle covered in silver glitter. However pretty it was, Laial didn't feel like having a tentecle full of glitter. So he did a seeminly logical thing and wiped off the tentecle with two other tentecles. Unfortunetly, this only resulted in three tentecles getting covered in glitter. Figuring this was some wierd mistake, he used his hands to wipe off his three tentecles. Of course, this resulted in getting glitter on his hands and still not removing it from his tentecles. Such was the magic of glitter.

Hearing about the paper crisis, Laial turned around to see Vivina with said paper in her face. Accidentally taking a glitter tentecle, he attemped removing the paper from her face.

((I put 'attempted' because I wasn't sure if you wanted the paper off her or not. ^^; ))

((This is just the start of chaos in the art room >D))

Daniel grinned and walked over to the kids with a box, various colored glitter, and glue bottles. "Hoho...so you want to put glitter on? Ok then, Vivina, you're first since you asked first. Put your collage in the box and use this glue bottle to design pattern with the glue, but don't squeeze too hard or else a big blob will pour out." He turned to look at Vivina after setting everything up and saw that she was furiously trying to get something off of her. Laial and Anoki both went after the piece of paper that was stuck to her nose, but Laial seemed to make things worse. He sighed and watched to see if they could remove it without making too much of a mess. Afterall, they needed to figure things out by themselves once in a while.

Vivina wiggled her nose at it grew itchy. She saw Laial reaching for the paper, but only resulted in getting glitter stuck onto the paper as well as her nose! "Gah! Laial! You got glitter on m- ah- ah- ACHOOO!" She sneezed loudly, removing some glitter, but not all. The paper was still stuck to her nose.

She looked over at Anoki and pointed to her nose. "Gah, don't feel sorry, just help me get this thing off my nose! It's itchy! What can get gluey paper off a nose?" She jumped in circles and looked around the room. Scizzors would only shrink the paper and possible cut her. Rulers wouldn't do a thing except whack her in the face. Glue would definitely make things a lot worse. She attempted to scratch her nose, but the paper wouldn't let the itching go away.

"I-I d-d-don't know! 'M st-stuck t-too!" Anoki yelped, trembling a little. Vivina was sneezing and Laial was waving back and forth and he had his hand stuck to the paper and couldn't get it off. If he pulled hard enough it might come off, but it would hurt one of them, or both of them.

He had to think clearly. What did his mama use when things got glued up? Hot water usually. Except they didn't have any water, and even if they did it would make the paper soggy, and get in Vivina's eyes, and make everything wet and icky. That situation was almost less appealing than being stuck to stuff.

When someone else grabbed the paper Anoki was relieved. Maybe they had an idea! But then he saw the knife, and let out a yell. "D-don't-t! Y-you're g-g-gonna h-hurt s-someone!"

Nexen glared at both Anoki and Vivina. Did they want her to help or not?! Putting the knife back in her hidden bag, she held onto the paper trying to decide on her next move. Taking her free hand, she placed it on the girl's face so it didn't move. "Dis schadet*," she 'warned' before ripping the paper off by sheer force.

The sound generated finally caused Laial to stop waving his hands and stomped up to Nexen. "Was was das for?!" he shouted at her, mixing in some German accidentaly.

"Sie moeche es abwesend..." Nexen muttered. Vivina did say she wanted it off...didn't she? Nexen helped remove the paper...even though the paper was now stuck to her hand. Flattening her ears against her head to deafen them slightly, she stood up straight to face off against Laial.

Laial, in turn, stood up straighter and half-subconciously raised his tentecles. "Maybe, but violence like that wasn't needed!" he argued back. This was starting to look less and less like a normal sibling argument and more and more like they were squaring off to fight.

And yet Scheu was still staring at the desert rose to the point where it's amazing his ability to tune things out.

((*Roughly - "This will hurt"))

"W-wait, don-" But it was too late, and the piece of paper was torn away from both Vivina and Anoki. Flinching obviously, the ibex bit his lip and studied his hand. There were a few hairs missing, and his hand stung, but other than that there was no real damage. He didn't have to go to a grown-up or anything, and that made him feel better.

More worrying was the fact that Nexen did something painful without even asking! That hurt more than the ripped-off paper did. Frowning, Anoki turned to her and waved his hand to get her attention. "D-didn' hafta h-hurt a-anyone. H-how c-c-come you d-didn' ask f-first?"

((Omg sorry I got the post order wrong. x_x Sorry for teh late.))

Vivina stared at her nose and watched as Nexen was lifted into the air. "She pulled the paper on my nose off and it hurt...see? It's red..." She pointed to the ointment covered nose and sniffled, wincing since the slightlest movement of her nose caused a sharp pain. She looked over at Anoki and pointed to his hand and to the paper on the ground. "And some of his fur is missing." She finally looked over to Laial who had stormed off back to his collage. "And he got mad..." Looking to see she didn't forget anything, she frowned and continued to look at her nose.

Dan shook his head and couldn't help but to laugh lightly. "Alright everyone...enough of this. I don't want any angry parents here when they return." He looked out the window and saw Et coming back with a box. That must be the snacks. What luck; this was perfect timing! "How about we take a snack break? After that we can finish the collages and go play out in the play ground. Sound good?" He smiled and began to walk out to open the front door. "Scheu, you wouldn't mind looking after them while I get the snacks, will you?" He waited by the door for an answer before running over to the door.

Vivina's ears perked up. "Snack time!!! Ooh goodie! Food! I was getting hungry..." She jumped up and down and forgot about what happened. She even ignored the pain as her hunger took over. It seemed that thinking, talking, enduring pain, and making art took all of Vivina's energy and her stomach empty. That wasn't surprising news to Vivina since this happens to her frequently. Grinning, she went over to her desk and cleared her workspace for snack space.