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 Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:41 pm
Shenzi smiled over at him, blowing out some of the smoke through her lips. "Mmm hmm, alright then Newt. And Zee is fine if you want, doesn't matter too much to me, since Shenzi's my stage name anyways." She laughed softly; it felt good to have a cigarette after a week without one. Sabin had gotten rid of her packs, and she hadn't met anyone yet who'd had any, not till Newt at least.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:54 pm
"Z-z-zz-zee m-might be easier for me to say," He laughed timidly. He was getting hungry, but wasn't about to go hunting in front of the human, and intended not to. But dragonflies were common around the lake, and delicious. He felt his eyes being drawn to every slight buzzing movement out across the water, willing the insects to stay away from their little bit of shore. He half crawled half hopped backward to settle downa nd lean his shoulder against a nearby rock and he tried to ignore the urge to lift it up and see what was crawling under it.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:00 pm
"Whatever works for you, Newt." She said, grinning as she rolled onto her belly, pulling the leather jacket off and brushing the sand off the sleeves, folding it up and putting it under her head as a pillow. Taking another drag on the cigarette, she rested her cheek on her jacket, her bare arms wrapped around it. She watched the frog-man settle down against a rock, and she grinned, watching him get comfortable. "So what do you do in your free time, Newt?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:04 pm
"Oh... ah... th-this, I suppose... I... I used to... to t-try to k-keep up my d-duties... I m-mean... th-they... d-didn't exaclty *t-tell* me I was f-fired at first..." He babbled, "B-but... I.. um... b-build things... g-go for... for s-swims..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:09 pm
Shenzi giggled, looking over at him again. "Hey, swimming is fun. The frog feet help with that I guess." There might be advantages to being animalized, though Shenzi couldn't for the wolrd of her imagine what she might become, and she didn't want to know either.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:45 pm
"I... I sup-sup-suppose..." Newt murmured, wriggling his long webbed toes thoughtfully, "I... I th-think I'd st-still... r-rather have my old f-feet back, though."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:50 pm
She smiled sympathetically. "Yeah, I can understand that. Can't say I want to be here anymore, not with the changes and stuff. But... It might be interesting, I guess. Would definately be something that'd freak my grandparents out." Shenzi said; that put a new light on her situation. It was still pretty shitty, but that was one thing to look forward to.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:12 pm
That was a thought Newt had been avoiding. His throat jumped in a distinctly froggish manner as his eyes wobbled, threatening tears. His father! What would his father think if he saw him now? Not only had he failed at the one job he had been decent at, he was now a frog to cap it all off! A small sort of squeek escaped his throat as he tucked his face behind his knees, still clutching his cigarette in a trembling webbed hand.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:27 pm
Shenzi looked dumbly at the frog-man for a moment; what was he doing? After a moment, she realized he was crying, or at least trying not to. His shoulders shook barely, and his fingers barely had hold of the cigarette. Pulling the cigarette from his hand, she rested it on the ground, and hesitated. After a second of hesitation and thought, she gently put her hand on his shoulder. "I-I'm sorry..." She said; she wasn't entirely sure what she was apologizing for, but it was something she said that triggered something.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:32 pm
"It's n-n-n-n-nn-nuh-nuh-not..." His stutter seemed to have worsened in his anxiety, and his voice wavered and broke, thick tears dribbling down his sunken green cheaks, "I... I... I....!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:42 pm
Shenzi rubbed her hand on his back, crooning softly. "It's okay, it's okay..." She really had no clue what he was unhappy about, though it started around when she mentioned her grandparents. Did he have problems with his? Or was it his parents?
"Want to talk about it?" She asked. She wasn't really much of a listener, and not much of a sympathetic ear, but sometimes even the appearance of an attentive listener helped.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:51 pm
"M-m-my... my f-father..." Newt finally managed after several false-starts, "W-woo-woo-would n-not... not ap-approve of m-me being a f-frog! H-he... he h-hardly ap-ap-approved of... of... of me b-be-b-buh-being a cus-cus-custodian!" Despite the rediculousness of his statement, he seemed thouroughly upset by the thought of it.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:59 pm
It was hard to make out what he was saying, but she finally managed to understand. Disapproving father, pretty much. Sounded similar to her grandparents. "If it helps any, my grandparents hate me. Long story short, they didn't even want me born." She said, a small, twisted smile on her face.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:04 pm
At the sound of that, the frog-man's throat inflated in a sligthly exasperated fashion, and his face paled slightly, "M-my my F-father is a good man, who l-lo-lo-loves me ver-ver-very much!!" It was unclear whether it was his stutter that made him say it so forcefully, or something else that was bothering him.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:10 pm
She held up her hands in defense. "I'm just tryin' to help! Jezuita, was just saying my grandparents don't approve of me either." Shenzi said, shrugging; she had almost no expirience dealing with sour moods. Most of the time she just said get over it and left it at that.
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