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 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:27 pm
Rivener blinked when Sev complimented his wings, then made a face. He rarely got compliments on those, they were his weapons, and therefore not normally the object of thorough examination. He took a moment to study the wings, noting the spikes and the bones... A slow smile crept onto his face as he was pulling Sev along. Yes, they WERE cool. Morbidly beautiful, even, when knowing that they could be used to kill things. "Thank you," he replied to the compliment, although by this time it was difficult to tell that he was referring to the ocean Frei's words.
Riv had looked at the spaceships, and enjoyed in particular the old, out-dated paintings of what the "future" was going to be like... He always got a good chuckle out of the UFO-like pie-shaped buildings on poles. He turned to look at the moon exhibit when Sev spoke. "Yeah, that's a really cool exhibit too... Actually, the anti-gravity room isn't far. You don't know what anti-gravity is? That's like when in all the space movies, people are floating about in their spaceship, as though they were in water... That's anti-gravity. There's a room here that fakes it!" Riv started to float towards the Moon section, knowing the other wanted to see it.
Aphismet tilted his head. "Huichol art? What's a Huichol? And you sew murals? How does that work, like a tapestry you mean? Sounds beautiful! I'd like to see that, maybe I could be a customer!" He smiled, happy to have apparently helped.
"As for anti-gravity... Well, it's a room that spins around and negates gravity, so that you feel like you're floating in outer space. It's really, erm... distrubing, but Rivener seems to like it." Aph shuddered at the thought. He preffered his feet on the ground, thank you very much.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:28 pm
"In... water? Really?!" If Sevilin had a tail it would have been wagging. "Oh can we go?! Can we do it together?!" The watery Raevan looked around franticly until he saw a small line around the corner. It wasn't long; they could make it in time. Indulgently, Sevilin floated over to the exhibit assuming Rivener would follow. He got in line obediently, occasionally looking to the left and right of the line to see if it was moving. He leaned over too far and caught the eye of two teenagers in front who gaped uncouthly at his oddity. Sevilin quickly got back in line and stopped peeking around.
We`rika began to inch away from Aphismet like a threatened animal. So many question he didn't want to answer! "..... I-I'mma.... I'mma Huichol....... They're like....... a nomadic tribe in Mexico. We uhh... descend from the Aztecs so like... our art is of significant interes' ta a lotta museums especially since we're dying off... Art kinda like tapestries, bu' no' as sophisticated......... I guess?" The shaman fidgeted a little uncomfortably. "Is kinda complicated..."
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:25 pm
Rivener nodded, grinning. "Sure, we can!" he admitted immediately. "I love the anti-gravity room." He did follow to the lineup, crossing his arms angrily at the wait. It was rather short, but with each person taking a few minutes inside...
He noticed Sev settling back into line after having fussed around. Why did he suddenly refuse to move like that? Glancing around, Riv found the cause; a pair of teenagers were staring at them open-mouthed. Rivener frowned, uncrossing his arms and letting his fists drop to his sides. He flared his wings and floated a bit higher, glaring at the kids. "What?!" he asked defiantly. "What do you want?! Turn back around!" He bared his teeth at them, and flapped his wings once, calling attention to the stingers.
The two teenagers blinked and turned back around, faces paler. They kept glancing covertly over their shoulders, but at least they weren't outright staring anymore. "Pf. Stupid." Rivener muttered. "I hate people who stare and fawn."
Aphismet blushed a bit at the faux-pas; he hadn't known Werika's race! "Oh, wow! That sounds really intriguing! I... I'm sorry I didn't know. I shouldn't have asked." He grinned sheepishly and ran a hand through his hair. "But the art thing sounds really cool! Why aren't you proud of it? You said you don't like it to be public or whatever, but I think it's really cool." A smile made its way onto his lips. "W-well, you don't have to talk about it if it makes you uncomfortable. But if it can help you stay at home more with Sev, then I'd help you sell them any way I can."
Aph noticed their two charges were in line for the anti-gravity room. He groaned. "Oh, goodness. W-we don't need to go in there with them, do we?" he asked the Huichol.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:42 pm
Sevilin flinched under Rivener's barking; he hadn't realized the Frei had floated behind him. He pursed his lips in a secret smile as he watched the two humans sweat under the confrontation. Once they turned back around, the lithe Raevan looked up at Rivener and his little smile grew into his usual bubbly sweet smile. "Hahaha thanks.... I'll have to try that next time..."
"Yeah well... is jes a thing I have against---............... I'll think abou' i'..." We`rika felt all snippity now what with all this interrogation. He crossed his arms over his chest defensively, ending the conversation there. Until Aphismet opened a new conversation that made We`rika giddy. He could hear the displeasure in the man's voice adn that gave him an epiphany. "Yes.... yes I think we do!" Smiling like a jackal, the shaman grabbed him unconventionally and pulled him towards the stairs like a child. The sad thing was, he was the older of the two.
We`rika didn't think much of cutting in front of the new people who began to form a line between his charge and Rivener. When they complained, he simply gave them a haughty toothy sneer that kept them in their place. "I though' ya guys migh' need some company..." Which sounded nice, but he really only came to watch Aphismet squirm.
"Ohhh but I wanna go in with Rivener only! I don't want you coming!" Sevilin complained whole-heartedly.
"Thas fine I dun mind goin' in with Aphismet alone..." We`rika needed horns to go with his evil personality.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:49 pm
Rivener smiled at Sevilin, a slightly evil, self-centered smile. "Sometimes you have to show those humans to keep their F-... Friggin distance." He wasn't quite sure why he'd censored himself, but perhaps it was his big brotherly instinct kicking in again. It was odd to think this way; wasn't Sevilin older than he was? "You have to be assertive or people will walk all over you." He nodded at his advice.
Aphismet, suddenly hauled forward by the Huichol, groaned. "Urrggh, I was afraid you'd say that." Feigning a smile, Aph let himself be dragged over, whispering apologies to everyone Werika cut in line. He stood meekly, grinning like a clueless idiot, just wearing a smile for the sake of hiding his distress. When Sev whined about going in alone with Riv, Aph began to protest the situation out loud: "Ah, well then we don't have to-", but he was cut off by Werika's claim.
Werika really did want to go in, it seemed. Aph couldn't let him go by himself, it wouldn't be friendly. He'd go with Werika, then. Sighing, resigned, Aph nodded. "Y-yes, that's fine. We'll just go, Werika and I, and you two can go seperately."
Riv laughed at Aph's face. It was highly obvious that Aphismet didn't like the Anti-Gravity room, but he agreed to go anyway. "See, that's a prime example," Riv explained to Sevilin. "Aphi isn't standing up to Werika, and he's getting stepped on." Riv grinned.
Aph blinked at his Raevan. "Wh-what are you talking about?" He glanced at Werika suspiciously, all of a sudden. It never occurred to him that the Huichol might be tricking him... but why would he do that? More likely Riv was trying to make him paranoid. "Stop saying such things, Riv. Be nice."
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:19 am
"Ohhh....." Sevilin nodded appreciatively to his teacher and his wise instruction. "Assertive..." The little Frei tried scrunching his face intoa vexed expression, but he looked more constipated than threatening. That earned him a chuckle from his guardian to which he replied with an embarrassed glower.
"Tha' one's better..."
At Rivener's comment, We`rika froze and wanted to tell the Raevan to shut the ******** up! until Aphismet turned his way and he went for the innocent and appalled approach. "O-Oh look.. ya guys are up! Have fun! Ohh kids..."
Sevilin turned around to see the usher waiting for them, a little stunned. Excited to finally enter, he floated forward (would have grabbed Rivener but thought better of it) and entered the small room. It had amazingly high ceilings. The watery Raevan floated up to the top and back down. He crossed the room this way and then that. "I don't get it.. It feels the same..." But as the door shut tight, he good feel his hair lifting behind him. It was a strange feeling to have no dead weight pressed against him. Even his bracelets floated around his little wrists. "How cool!"
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:37 am
Rivener followed Sevilin into the room and stayed quiet as the other explored. He waited patiently for the door to close, and once it did, he grinned. His clothes no longer weighed on him, and his hair, silky red and black strands, floated around his head, making him look quite ominous. "Here, float around while it does this; I don't know about you, but my ribbon goes all crazy in zero G."
To demonstrate, Rivener floated over to the other Frei, his hair trailing behind him like a dark cloud. The ribbon, usually coiled beneath him and hardly ever moving, was twitching every which way as though it was a tentacle, trying to escape a prison. It lashed harmlessly at Sevilin's body when Riv floated by, but as soon as Riv settled again, the ribbon fell back into place, curling under him and going back to "sleep". Rivener grinned. "Isn't it weird? You should give it a try too!"
Aphismet, outside, gulped uneasily as he and Werika waited their turn. "I really hate anti-gravity, it feels so... unnatural." He'd decided to ignore Rivener's words; Riv had a habit of trying to rile up his guardian, and Aph expected this was one of those times. He attempted a smile at the Huichol. "I hope you'll like it! First time I went in, I kinda... Well, I was sick. It was really embarassing." He blushed and ran a hand through his hair again, stopping at the back of his head and scratching nervously. "G-good thing I'm not full of food this time, hunh?" He chuckled, a hint of hysteria in his laugh.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:07 am
The sea Frei watched Rivener delightedly, following him with his big blue eyes as the poisonous Raevan came closer. Sevilin giggled as his ribbon attacked him innocently, turning and his giggling turned into amiable laughter. "Haha Rivener yer hair...!" Running a hand through his own navy hair, the little Raevan pulled out the scrunching that kept his long hair under control and it rose like a puffy wave behind him.
"Okie! I'll give it a go..." Not really sure which way to go, he decided up was a nice course and began rising faster and faster as his purple ribbon whipped and flailed behind him like a flag caught in a storm. Deciding to be a little more risqué, Sevilin paused and with his arms outstretched spun like a tornado, his hair turning him into a blue blur and his ribbon straightening into a long corkscrew. "Ohhh... " he groaned as he slowed down and held his head for a moment. "maybe that wasn't such a good idea hahaha...!" He tried to laugh it off, but that just made him dizzier.
We`rika chuckled with Aphismet a bit awkwardly. Poor guy. He almost felt bad tricking him. Almost. "I'lla make sure ta stay a few fee' away hahaha!"
Watching Rivener teach Sevilin and his own little Frei spin himself sick, he was glad he sucked up his pride and met up with Aphismet. "Well... they seem to be off to a good start. I dunno how Sevilin makes friends so easily. He'lla hafta teach me his secre'..."
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:23 am
Rivener laughed as Sev spun like a madman. He looked interesting, and had Riv had his camera with him, he would have liked to snap a picture of that. It was over all too quickly at the ocean Raevan wobbled to a stop. "That's not a good idea even under normal circumstances," he agreed.
Just as he was finishing his sentence, the room regained its gravity; his hair fell back down and his clothes suddenly hung on his arms as before. "Our turn is over," Riv explained, although there was no need to. "Come on, it's our guardians' turn. Let's watch! Aphismet gets really sick when he's in here sometimes, it's kinda funny."
The Raevan dashed out the newly-opened door, crossing Aph and Werika in the doing. He grinned at Aph wickedly. "Have fun," he barbed.
Aphismet grinned humorlessly at his Frei. "N-nice," he noted.
As he was stepping into the room, he tried to keep talking, to keep his mind off the inevitable feeling of weighing nothing. "Well, Sev is a sweetie. I'm sure if anyone could crack Rivener's hard shell it'd be him. He's just honest and friendly, and that's normally quite contagious." He smiled at the Blue Frei's keeper. "You're not doing so bad yourself, friend-wise, you know. Tons of people like you at the Lab, and we're becoming friends really quickly too," he added with a nod as the door closed behind him.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:57 am
Sevilin nodded and floated out of the chamber behind Rivener, almost hitting the door frame as his equilibrium tried to right itself. He took a spot beside his friend and wrestled with his long hair to put it back in a loose ponytail. "He gets sick? But... but isn't that bad?" He suddenly felt anxious for Aphismet. He didn't want him to go in if it was going to make the guardian hurt!
We`rika entered the room eagerly. He listened to Aphismet, kind of, as he looked around the room. It was completely white with one glass wall so passersby could watch. The shaman looked back at the other man quizzically. "The Lab?" Oh yeah, duh! He had only been there once and under some uhh strange circumstances. He still needed to get Sevilin a check-up, he just hadn't had time yet. Seeing Aphismet feel like part of a community made him feel slightly jealous and guilty. We`rika hadn't really tried becoming active with the Lab, actually it seemed he was trying even less once Sevilin had come along. And here he wondered why Sevilin felt lonely. Tsh! He felt like a selfish a*****e.
His self-beating was paused by the sudden feeling that his stomach had jumped into his throat. He let out a surprised laugh as his feet left the floor. "Tons? Wha'ev, I'vea me' like one other person besides ya: Chloe! Oh and Ravi................ and Natsuki, well I guess I kinda me' th'lab owner.... okie I ge' yer poin'..." He thought about Aphismet's last comment, but instead changed the subject. "So tell me wha' abou' feelin' like yer flying do ya no' like... I dun ge' i'..." We`rika teased as he laid on his back and swam with his arms.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:25 am
Rivener shrugged at Sevilin's question. "I guess it is kinda bad, but I'm done feeling sorry for him in life. All he ever did was complain and whine about things, but he never has the guts to do anything about it. Case in point, right there," he pointed at the guardian who, once the Anti-gravity kicked in, suddenly turned a greenish hue and began floating accidentally around the room, upside down, sideways, any way but the right way. "If that were me, I would have outright disgreed to go in there, but he didn't have the guts to say no. And actually, the way he floats describes him very well too; just floating there and letting the room throw him around, simply because he doesn't have the balls to reach out and balance himself. He's scared to make things worse, he says. Pfah." Riv crossed his arms.
"Someday when he's tired of being sick and whiny, then he'll snap out of it. til then I'm not going to be his babysitter." He sneered. "Do you need any help with that?" Riv asked, pointing at the ponytail Sev was attempting.
Aphismet smiled at the very mention of Chloe's name, but it didn't last long as his stomach rose in his throat. All his limbs were tucked in close to his body, and he was currently upside down, glancing out the window at the world which was still right-side up, and his brain hurt trying to reconcile the two.
"I, er..." He said waveringly. "I, I just don't do g-good in um... this thing. I- That is, it eehhhh... World is topsy turvy... Ohhhhhh~...." He wailed pathetically, clutching at his stomach and clenching his eyes shut, trying to ignore the world around him. "Gah!" He yelped as he suddenly bumped against a wall. "Help!"
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:50 am
Sevilin listened to Rivener like a follower enchanted by a strong leader. He was independent and confident and strong, but the way he spoke it sounded very jaded and dark. It made him want to give the black and red Raevan a hug.
In listening to Rivener's heated comments, Sevilin had completely forgotten about his hair. "Oh... Oh! yes please! I always seem to have a hard time find the end to all of it..." The watery Frei giggled and turned around, handing the velvet scrunchy to the Raevan.
We`rika tried not to laugh, but it was inevitable. Just getting the hang of it, We`rika clumsily floated over to Aphismet and, trying his best to not float away, he righted him slowly and held onto his shoulders so he wouldn't fly off. "Ya shouldn' be lettin' air push ya around..." The shaman jabbed amiably.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:03 am
Rivener took the scrunchy and expertly ran his fingers through the other's hair a few times, same as he did with his own locks when they were unruly. When they were neatly combed (well, neatly enough considering), he grabbed the bottom end and twirled the velvet scrunchy around it a few times. "There, is that okay?" he asked, floating back to check the handiwork. It looked a little crooked compared to before, and there were still one or two places where Sev's hair poked out of the otherwise uniform mass, but all in all it was alright.
"The show is going to start soon," Rivener noted. "We should go get good seats once these two get out," he said with a smile. He couldn't wait for the show, as evidenced by his bobbing up and down slightly, wings flaring. "I have to warn you though, the first thing in the show is an explosion like in the nebula display." He laughed. "It'll be very bright, but there's no bang or anything... just so you know."
Aphismet smiled thankfully at Werika. He reached out for the wall, since he was near it, and latched on for dear life, remaining quite still and defeating the entire purpose of the antigravity room. "I... I know. Riv tells me that too... But I just worry that I'll just start spinning head over heels if I move too much. And then the gravity would come back and I would fall on my head." He chuckled self-depreciatingly.
"Y-you're taking to it quite easily, though... I am a little jealous," he admitted with a shy shrug.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:07 pm
Sevilin waited patiently, picking at his bracelets until Rivener finished. He liked to be pampered, but We`rika completely refuses to do his hair even when he employs his usual goo-goo eyes! But he'd crack, his guardian always did. When the black and red Frei asked, he turned his head from side to side and let his long tail whip back and forth. "Yeah it's jes fine! Thanks!" He smiled appreciatively and looked back at We`rika and Aphismet.
"Explode? Why does everything explode here?" He asked dismally, not really looking for an answer. Sevilin almost wished the guardians would take too long and they'd miss the show or at least the beginning.
We`rika made another awkward attempt to laugh off Aphismet's comment. Is prolly cause I'mma half baked. "Well ya know... is like some people ge' sick on ships and some dun I guess. Maybe I jes have a high tolerance fer woozyness..." Watching the man cling desperately to the wall, the shaman felt compelled to help the poor creature. "Man, ya need ta take control! What if Riv--What if Chloe was attacked by an anti-gravity field and th'only way ta save her was ta float over and pull her ta safety? Would ya jes cling ta th'wall and le' her ge' all anti-gravity-ey? No! ya'd swim yer a** over and show off how awesomely heroic ya'd be! Ya gotta take th'fear, bend i' over, and give i' ta i'.... ya know?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:20 pm
Rivener chuckled at Sevilin's rhetorical question. Things explode because that's what they do in space, it seemed. "Why don't you like explosions? It's always so pretty, when things explode. Lights all over, fun patterns to look at..." He grinned. "And then everything settles into peace, and it looks so much more quiet and serene when compared to the violent beginning. I really like it, that contrast."
Riv was starting to fret that they would be late, and he was shooting the room operator dark glances. C'mon already, Aph and Werika had been in there long enough!
Aphismet swallowed hard at that comment. "O-of course I'd go and try my best to save Chloe or Riv if somehow, Anti-Gravity attacked them," he laughed at that concept. "But er, I doubt I'd end up looking heroic. I'd probably throw up all over them while saving them, more likely." He laughed at that, although it embarrassed him to admit such a thing. His blush darkened further once he finally clued in to Werika's last sentence about "bending it over". He flustered, letting go of the wall, flailing about just as the gravity returned. He lowered to the ground gently but still managed to trip over his own feet on landing, falling onto his butt.
"Ah! Er... T-take the fear, hunh? W-well, I uh..." He got up and dusted off, hurrying for the now-opening door. He would escape this conversation by escaping the room! "T-time to go to the star show!" He declare shrilly.
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