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 Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:22 am
"Eugh..." her stomach turned, though part of her felt rather pleased on her first bug. "They do not.. taste that good.." She vaugly wondered the conciquences of eating something whole... expecially that something.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:30 am
"Y-you... ah... are... are y-you a sub-subject?" He finally managed, watching her carefully, "Or... or ah...? w-were you infected?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:35 am
"I.." Natsumi paused, trying to place which word was right. Infected sure sounded right... or was there a different letter in there somewhere... she frowned, getting her words jumbled. Too bad she'd never had 'English for the mad scientist 101'
Not figuring this out anytime soon, she figured she'd just explain how she got here... Since everyone was a subject right? This man sure looked like one... "I.. I came here for a job as a translator..." she trailed off, deciding against sharing the embaressing part about getting tricked by Sabin.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:16 pm
"T-translater? Y-you... you aren't a sub-subject?" He double checked, his hand raising to his mask.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:43 pm
She hesitated, unsure if she wasn't a subject or not... But she was a translator. Or had supposed to have been. "Yes.. Translator." she nodded, "Though..." she frowned, "I am not sure if there is much of a job here..." And even if Sabin had some actual work for her she doubted she'd do it now, not after what he did. She kept all thoughts of her distaste towards the man to herself.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:39 pm
He glanced around, double checking that they were still alone befor he slowly eased his mask off to see her better. If she wasn't a subject and was just infected like him- they couldn't effect eachother any worse than they were already effected, could he? "Y-you're... ah... ch-changed t-too?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:44 pm
Natsumi relaxed some as the mask came off, smiling a bit. Sure she had absolutly no idea what this guy was talking about.. but he didn't look like he was about to choke on his own heart, and that was all that mattered.
She paused to look over her arms, rubbing at them as she did so... The night air was still chilly, though the adrenalin rush was doing a find job of keeping her from getting too cold. "Yes." she muttered simply, giving one last warm-up rub of her arms, before offering her hand foreward, although looking a bit awkward in doing so, as it wasn't her normal way of introducing herself. "I am.. Natsumi Tanaka."
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:51 pm
The frog man timidly eased forward, raising a clammy, green, webbed hand to shake her's, "N-nuh-N-nuh-Newton Filinas. I'm th-the... ah.. Cus-custodian." He pointed to the dirty, worn badge proudly. "And... I'm... er... apparently a fr-fruh... a fruh-fruufro," He swallowed, brows furrowing, "Frog."
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:18 pm
"Newton Filinas..." she repeated to memorize it as soon as he managed to get it out of his mouth. "It is nice to meet you." she looked at the little badge with a smile, having no idea what a custodian was.. but he sure was happy about it, best to just play along.
Or maybe she had heard it before... Sounded somewhat familiar, but she couldn't quite place it. --Wait, a frog? Hah. She was right. "Aa. I am..." she paused, vaugly wondering if she was the only one on the island that didn't stop to ask what she was being mutated into... "I am.. not sure. I have scales, but my feet..." she shifted so she could show him said anatomy, she had just slipped on sandals before heading out for food, so the webbing was easy to see. "They are strange."
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:31 pm
His brows furrowed as he lowered the mask, "M-maybe... I... ah... I w-wouldn't... er.. know... um." He cleared his throat, pulling himself as far upright as he could, but his changed legs still were proving difficult, and although he was over six feet tall himself, he remained far shorter than her in his ruined posture. "So... so.... y-you... eat... insects t-too?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:50 pm
Natsumi shrugged, rising to her feet when he did, giving a small brush off of her knees. She'd gotten dirt on them when she had jumped to the choking man's aid. " I.. guess so.." she chuckled some, that was her first insect afterall.
When she had finished brushign off her knees she was abruptly reminded of her state of dress, and just how apparnt her pregnancy was. Her eyes seemed to widen, and she looked as though she'd been startled by something, before she stood straight and crossed her arms across her stomach. Awkwardly trying to continue the conversation posed like that. "I aa... That was my first. But I have been wanting to for a while now.." she admitted as an after thought, hoping to make him feel better as the initial discovery had made her.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:02 pm
Perhaps fortunatly for Natsumi, Newt was a very polite man. If there was anything more impolite about remarking on a women's weight- he wasn't sure he wanted to know. Especially concidering that she was seemingly self concious about the issue. Instead he swallowed, "I... ah... w-was about to go inside... I eat l-late at n-night so I d-don't... r-run into any of the sub-subjects, y-you know? I d-dont' want to c-catch any more! B-but um... I m-mean... m-maybe it's not so bad if... if y-you're... n-not alone d-doing it?" He seemed hopefull at the idea of another insectivor. Granted, frogs had been known to eat just about anything they could fit in their mouths, but deep down, he supposed, all his inner amphibian wanted was a nice, big, fat, juicy, wriggling worm. His stomach did a flip-flop as his human mind had to cope with this. He wondered how the pudgy scaled woman was handling it.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:42 pm
The stutter was a bit tricky, but not as tricky as Alec's accent had been. She listened, nodding to what he said. She simply assumed what he meant by running into other subjects was because he didn't want anyone to see him eating insects.
"I came out because I was hungry as well.." she smiled, "We could... find some more, if you would like? You have spilt yours..." she noted to the few worms that were excaping the insectivore's clutches. The seemed to have spilled out of his pot when he fell moments before.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:54 pm
"Ah-" He seemed to just realize this, fumbling clumsily with his mask befor digging at the ground again. He had no idea how frogs managed to catch their own dinners- hop around and snatch them from the air, he supposed. On this tropical island, that didnt's eem vey hard, although his aim still was needing improvement. Worms were trickier, though, but the tastiest to his changed tongue. He had, in private, experimented with a few others- dragon flies were the easiest to spot, but they were quick, and roaches, while having a wonderful sort of crunch gave him the chills. "Th-those t-took for-forever to find!"
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:44 pm
Natsumi suddenlly felt bad for him. She had never thought about how hard it must have been to catch so many worms, but.. she could definatly imagine.
Since he hadn't seemed to notice her stomach, she figured the dark was hiding it enough, and moved her arms to kneel and start going after the worms. She frowned, digging her fingers into the dirt around one that was jsut about to dissapere beneith the ground. She shivered some as she felt it on her fingers, trying to pull it back up. So slimey.. and to think she'd just eaten one made her stomach turn.
She gave a tiny yelp as it almost got away, catching it again and quickly holding it out to Newton. "H-Here is one..." she muttered meekly, she wasn't a bug person... But still, while holding the one worm out, she used her free hand to grasp around for any more.
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