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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:59 pm
Ifrit chuckled to himself at her little game and had the wisp she was playing with wiggle back at her and lead her on a little chase. Not too close to the sharp little crystals, of course.
After a few moments he said, "Well there are other caverns in this particular cave. Some of them have crystals like these, some of them have... other things." He shrugged.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:06 pm
"Other things?" She said looking to him curiously. Her eyes were alight and glowing and not simple from curiousity but from the lights and the crystals. They shimmered and glowed around her making her a stunning sight to behold. She was innocence embodied in the form of a lovely kitsusagi and all she wanted to do was to learn.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:11 pm
Ifrit... wanted her. And didn't want to ruin her at the same time. It was akward, not that there was any outward sign of his confliction. "There are... curtains, in one of the caverns. Lacy curtains." He grinned and winked. "Special curtains. If you want to go see."
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:19 pm
There was a pure aura surrounding Xanabel that seemed impossible to taint, but still when the harshness of reality set in -if it ever set in- that aura could become tainted with a sad beauty unlike this happy girl before the aeon's eyes. Her eyes wandered from her game back to her escort and she nodded happily, "Oh yes please!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:23 pm
Ifrit stood back up and padded to Xanabel's side, all the wisps collecting themselves from around the room to float in a circle around the two. "This way!" He grinned and set off toward one side of the cavern at his Xana-moderated pace.
It was a few more minutes and a couple of forks in the path before they came into another cavern, the wisps almost immediately scattering themselves in a gleeful manner. This cavern was decorated with what was actually also crystals... except they fell from the cieling in rippled curtains of paper-thin stone, some looking like average drapes and some looking like the most intricate of lace patterns. Ifrit sat down, still grinning, and wagged his tails. He didn't think this one needed any words of introduction.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:31 pm
There was a slight feeling of nervousness welling up in her throat and she came up with a word to describe it: lost. They could easily get so lost, but if Ifrit had confidence she had to trust he knew where they were. Yes of course he did, this was his cave after all wasn't it? Anyway, she let her eyes fall over the crystal curtains and couldn't speak. There weren't any words forming in her throat and so merely stared, her teal eyes wide.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:08 pm
Ifrit just smiled at Xanabel's wide eyes. "Most people don't think about things like this when they think of rocks, or even caves... people usually think of blank stone walls when they hear the word cave, like in the passageways." He trotted over to one and waved her over, peering through the curtain. "This one's so thin you can kinda see through it." After a moment he added as an afterthought, "And these you have to be careful about touching too... but it's because they're fragile. They'll break if you push on them much."
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:35 pm
Her ears flicked back as she too looked through the curtain of crystal stone. It was thin as paper but thousands of times more lovely than anything she'd ever imagined in her wildest dreams of the world. It was so wide and openly filled with new mysterious. Temptation sprang up to push one but that would be cruel. The rocks had never done anything to her. She listened to his commentary very politely and then flicked her ears forward, "So people take caves for granted?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:43 pm
Ifrit nodded. "They can. This particular cave is made of limestone, and limestone caves are hard to find sometimes. Especially up here, since most of the mountain is made of granite. It's rare to find limestone in a mountain like this, actually. People just don't think about things sometimes if they don't realize they're there."
He motioned for her to follow and led her over to a much thicker curtain... except upon closer examination it was revealed that several sheets had formed pretty much on top of one another. "You can touch this one, if you want to see what it feels like. They're pretty sturdy together like that."
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:53 pm
"Limestone? Granite?" She questioned in a soft voice as she reached the other curtain. The tone of her voice made it seem as if she was afraid simply breathing would cause the entire thing to shatter before her very eyes. That couldn't be the case of course, but still that's how it sounded. She smiled kindly, in a sad awe as if she'd start crying because it was that new and amazing to her. Her delicate green and black paw raised and poked the curtain of rock gently. It shimmered under her paw and her eyes lit up and gleamed, just like in the previous room.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:03 pm
"Granite is the really hard, darker sort of stone you see around the mountain where water's washed the dirt off. Limestone is usually very light colored, white almost, and it's a lot softer. That's why over a very long time water can wash caves out of limestone... and sometimes leaves things like this for us to marvel at." Even if he was the flame Aeon, Ifrit knew a lot about the earth. In his first life he'd been rather fascinated with it, and as an Aeon he'd had time to learn, and opportunity, especially since his strongest power involved earth as much as it did flames. "The crystals in the other room and the crystals that make the curtains are called calcite crystals... they're made of the tougher limestone that didn't get washed away."
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:19 pm
"Soft? Stone can be soft?" She wasn't really following him, and was rather confused. Sinking to her belly to examine the ends of the curtain and half-listen to him at the same time she was rather dazed with all the things he'd tried to tell her for she didn't understand a small simple word of any of it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:32 pm
Ifrit face-palmed his forehead. "I'm sorry Xana. I get carried away sometimes. And... some stone can be soft. Not soft like grass or anything... but softer than other rocks." He grinned and shook his head. "Nevermind." A wisp floated over and landed on Xanabel's nose. "Want to go see the river? It's pretty in a different way than here."
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:46 pm
She released a shocked cat-like gasp and pawed at her nose, mewing softly. It was something she used to do when she was very tiny and would play with her daddy's tails. He would always tease her and she'd whimper, more like a common house cat than anything else. "The river? Oh... can we really? You don't mind showing me around a little more?" She said it as if he should be bored of her already. Barely had she noticed that he made up a nickname for her.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:00 pm
Ifrit snorted softly. "Mind? Of course not. I'm having fun showing you around." All of the wisps but the one on Xanabel's nose floated down and arranged themselves on Ifrit's horns, making him look rather like a large multi-tined candlestick. "So it's really no trouble at all."
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