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 Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:52 pm
How to get the car near the beach? It was already pretty close, being on top of the cliffside and all... and if they managed to get it on the beach itself, it would definitely get stuck, regardless of how close to the water it was. Why would Bolide want the car on the beach, anyway? pondered Lex, sitting down on one of the numerous rocks to think. Did he think she would try to get away? Naturally, she wouldn't try to do that, but she was sure he wouldn't trust her word on it... Suddenly, she got an idea. "If it's keeping me here that you're worried about, you can keep the keys with you. Cars don't run if they don't have the keys in their ignition. ...Of course, you can't loose the keys, either, or else we'll have to push the thing all the way back to Rosewood." That would be a pain, and then she'd have to explain to her landlady how she lost her car keys, which would be awkward. The landlady had no real opinion of the Cambrians (so long as they didn't touch her cats), but saying that a large shark-man lost the keys on the beach sounded like a pathetic excuse.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:14 pm
Well, Raven and this other human could sleep in the car, but Blueshift wasn't about to. He'd seen cars from afar before, looking like smooth river pebbles. Definately not something he'd want to sleep in, since the inside must've looked as uncomfortable as the outside. He'd take the gritty sand any day, thank you very much. To prove his point, he trotted over closer to the cliffside, dug a rough, shallow pit, and curled up in it like a cat. "Stay here," he said roughly, though his own body muffled his voice.
Raven sighed. Well, great. He wasn' about to drag him off somewhere else closer to where he'd be; the last time he tried dragging him around Bolide had to wrench him off. That's it, Bolide!
"Hey, uh," he directed to Bolide, "d'you think you could stay with him?" Blueshift seemed to like Bolide, oddly enough, so he figured no midnight snacking would be going on. That, and Blue would be up until dawn was over, so he could always alert anyone else of trouble. If he decided that Raven was worth saving, of course. He sighed again.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:56 pm
"Okay, I keep the keys," Bolide said. That seemed like a good plan. He didn't have any pockets to keep them in, but the keys he had seen came with rings attached. He would just jam the ring over the tip of his tail. That should do the trick. As for shoving the car all the way back to Rosewood, Bolide wasn't too keen on the idea. Too bad cars couldn't float. Bolide wouldn't mind tugging a boat behind him in the water. He had hauled Martina around in a skiff plenty of times.
Spending the night with Blueshift would be okay. The little... person... seemed to like the ocean, which Bolide approved of. Digging a nest in the sand looked like a comfy way to relax, too. Sand felt good on Bolide's tough skin. It rubbed all the itchy patches and got rid of all the itchy clingy stingy bad things that burrowed into his hide when he swam through seaweed. Seaweed. Yech.
"Yes, I stay with Blueshift." He turned his head, bringing a set of eyes closer to the small Cambrian, the better to appraise him. "I like to sleep in the tidepool. You make your bed closer? That way, any bad man comes, you yell, I am eating him."
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:04 pm
However acceptable Lex's plan was, there was still a small problem: the car was on the shoulder of the street, which was several feet out of reach. She very well couldn't climb back up in her condition, and it would be extremely awkward for Bolide to have to carry her up there. Those dorsal fins didn't look very comfortable, either. "Well... here you are," she said to Bolide, reaching into her jeans pocket and pulling out the keys that had a vague scent of cat food on them. "Raven, we'll have to find a way to get back up the cliff... the car is right up there." Lex pointed upward in the general area of where she had last seen the vehicle. "I don't know how you got down here without killing yourself, so if you know of a safer way to get back up, I'd be very much obliged."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:39 pm
Blueshift grumbled, not for the fact of being asked to move, but that his current choice of bedding was a poor one. Too far from the ocean, the sand was uncomfortably dry and gritty. Instinct had told him to stick closer to his omoni, but friends > mothers in terms of protection. So he waltzed closer to the lapping waves and Bolide.
Hmm. Blueshift wasn't too sure of eating humans as a plan. So far, humans had seemed to him as poor (in every way) as Raven, so wouldn't that mean they'd taste bad? "Get sick eat," he said to Bolide, nodding.
Making sure that Blueshift had nested himself close to the relative safety of Bolide, Raven turned back to Lex. He had to think a moment at what she said. "Oh yeah!" he said. "I came down over there," he said, pointing north. "S'not as steep." He omitted the fact that he almost faceplanted running down the rocky incline.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:01 pm
Wedging the key ring over the tip of his tail, Bolide nodded to the humans and made his way closer to the ocean. This area wasn't quite as nice as the last place he had settled down to sleep, but it would do. There was a bit of a sandbar here, creating a shallow pool that would make a comfy resting place. After kicking at the sand to drive out rays and any grumpy crabs, Bolide settled himself down with a sigh. He curled up like a cat, keeping his eyes and snout above water to watch Blueshift.
Get sick eat? Maybe the smaller Cambrian was a vegetarian. Bolide had heard of such people. It was sad, but true. What a terrible world to live in. He heaved a sigh of pity. "If you eat meat, humans are tasting like normal meat. Like pig or monkey, or spam. They are getting very angry if you say to eat them though, so don't be talking about it." Words of wisdom. Key-bearing tail tucked up tightly against him, Bolide watched the humans' departure without a farewell. It was time to sleep. Too many words, too many words.
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