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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:13 am
Aru smiled and held up his hands, signing on weather or not she would like some coffee or tea, and then winked. He lived with a mute, of coarse he knew sign language. Then again, it had taken him half of poor lil mute Oliver's life for him to get it down pact. Somehow or another he would always mistake 'sleep' for 'kitten'... Just don't ask.
He pulled out a chair at an empty table for Alida to sit at, and waited for her to get ready to sit. A gentleman always holds out a chair for a lady.
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:25 pm
Alida's mouth dropped open in a surprised smile. He knew how to sign! Not very many people did... well, it would save paper and time if she didn't have to write in the notebook.
She thought for a moment, and decided she would like tea before telling him so via signing, and sat down in the proferred chair delicately. This was something else she wasn't used to, and it caused a little blush to color her cheeks. He was being very chivalrous.
Still, she was curious. She decided when they were both sitting that she would ask him where he'd learned to sign. She'd taught herself from reading various books, but only some of her large extended family had become anything like proficient in it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:00 am
Arukoru scooted the seat in under Alida's behind and gently pat her shoulder, before he went up and got her the tea she disired. Since she didn't ask what kind of tea, he got a black chai for himself and a white oolong for her. If she didn't like one she could always try the other.
He returned to the table juggling the two cups and a third plate. He set the first tea in front of Alida, and his own in front of his chair. Then he set a decent slice of cheese cake with a strawberry on top in the middle of the table. It had two small forks on the plate with it, which looked more like a crab eating fork than it did for cake.
"How many siblings do you have, Alida?" Aru asked as he sat down and smoothed out his shirt. He was used to people in Gaia having very large families, what with the adoption epidemic that seemed to be going threw.
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:41 am
Alida looked with interest at the cake, then took a sip of her tea, which had turned out to be the Oolong. It was quite good, and she smiled as she gave thought to Aru's question. With all the coming and going, and so many of her 'siblings' having grown up and moved out, it was sometimes hard to keep track.
Finally she rolled her eyes a bit, and set down her tea. She signed, From the Kinder Adoption Center, I have two brothers and a sister, all younger. Also, I have four siblings that grew up with me from other centers... and several family members that I'm not sure I can count as siblings. I think of them more as guardians or aunts and uncles, I suppose.
She had met some of his family already, she knew, but she wondered as well how extensive his own was, and asked him.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:41 pm
Arukoru sipped from his own cup idly as his lazy eyes watched as his friend signed out the answer to his question. He then set down his cup and counted on his fingers, before he spoke.
"Well.. They're not really siblings. But my caretaker has had three other children from the center, two of which moved out. Then she has eight other children. Five of which are biologically hers from various relationships." he explained.
"She also has this pet crow that looks after us, sorta like a live in babysitter. Although you wouldn't be able to tell what she is by looking, thanks to that horrible insense she keeps lit around the house." he muttered. He rather disliked the smell, and that's why he kept his room scented with body sprays and candles. But he knew it had to be lit otherwise Shelly would just be a random squaking bird in the house.
"What was your real family like? Do you remember them?" he asked, after all.. They where all orphans.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:56 pm
Alida didn't have much memory about when she'd still been in Hell. She'd been very young, four at most, when she'd been sent out. But she also knew she'd been lucky; her exile hadn't been as traumatic as others she'd heard from.
She thought for a moment, and then told him about the library. It hadn't been much of a library, now that she thought about it. but in her memory it was a grand example of Gothic architecture. The architecture may indeed have been Gothic, but the windows were shattered from the perpetual fighting, and there was debris scattered about inside. Why the books were left alone, she didn't know. All she knew was that was where she'd spent a lot of her time as a child, hiding in the dusty, broken halls... which made her wonder where exactly her parents were...
Demons aren't known for their parenting skills, but they usually stick around for a while, at least... She had a vague memory of a long-haired woman and a tall, deathly white-skinned man... She'd always associated them with the library itself, but could they be her parents? She didn't know.
She smiled ruefully and shrugged. It didn't bother her very much. Rime was her mother, even if it was by adoption. She'd had more of a hand in how the teen had turned out than anyone else, excepting the demon who'd found her in the library with the tattered volume of Shakespearian love poems and tossed her out in disgust.
She been sipping her tea periodically as she signed to him, and she took another drink as she finished. She fiddled with the handle of the cup for a moment, not sure what to say now.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:39 am
Aru watched the story and let out a slight nod, before he rested his lips agianst the back of his hands, which where propped by his elbows on the table.
"It seems you got luckier than others then," he said, his eyes thinned in a faint scowl at the table. "For all you know your parents could of just been lost incombat and war.. You don't know weather or not your loss was on purpose."
He took a sip of his coffee quietly, and set it back down, before he took in a deep breath.
"I don't even really have parents. Unless you consider a tree a valid mother or father." He snorted.
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:04 am
Alida nodded, willing to accept that as a possibility. She'd come to terms with her adoption a while ago... but she thought she'd always wonder what happened to them.
But his next words made her frown in concern. He looked, and sounded, a little upset.
A tree? she asked, waiting for more explanation. She reached across the small table to hesitantly touch one of his hands.
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