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 Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:56 pm
Snow? Check. Shoes? Check. Feet properly bandaged? Check. Erishi sighed as she walked around the garden, not wearing a coat and, as usual, not bothered by the cold. Shammi rested in her arms, sucking her pacifier and wrapped in a warm winter suit.
The screeches caught Shammi's attetion, but not the woman who held her. Shammi spat out the pacifier and screeched back, hoping to catch someone's attetion.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:52 pm
Halting and listening to the answering screeches, Len wandered towards the source of the high-pitched sound.
"Hello? Anything capable of talking around?" she asked mildly, looking around and spotting a woman holding something bundled up in her arms. Fixing her ragged shawl again, she tread a little closer.
"Um, hi. Hope I didn't scare you with my screaming for attention," she said, trying to get a good look at the bundle the woman held. A baby, most likely. But, hey, she wasn't picky - she was bored out of her mind and company was company.
Crow jogged after Lenore, wincing as the intake of every cold breath burned her lungs and throat.
"Len, for the love of Pete, don't run off like that - you never know what you'll run into - oh. Hi," she said, cutting her scolding off mid-word as she noticed the two new people.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:10 pm
Erishi looked at the two and smiled big. She handed Shamilade to Lenore with a gigantic smile. "Hello, Puppy! Have a kitten! Her name is Shammi!" She grabbed a corner of the skirt she wore and curtsied before turning to Crow and nodding sagely. "Yes, good mommy! You must warn your puppy about the dangers of the wandering Erishis!"
Shammi poked her nose out of the blanket and stared up at Lenore, eyes crossing slightly. "Bud?" She said, blinking one eye before the other.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:23 pm
"Uh, thanks, I...guess."
Looking down at the baby she'd just been randomly handed, Lenore tried valiantly not to laugh. She already liked this lady.
"Hullo, kitten-baby." she said kindly, watching the baby's eyes with interest. "You're a chameleon, aren't you, Shammi?"
Turning to look at Crow, she gave an amused shrug and sat on an edge of one of the flower boxes, careful holding her unexpected charge.
Waving uncertainly, and curtsying in return after a second's thought, Crow wondered what on earth she'd just walked into.
"Pleased to meet you - my name's Crow. Are you guys...new around here?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:31 pm
Shammi blinked one eye at Lenore, swirling the other to look at Erishi.
"Lizard Kitty." Erishi confirmed, nodding.
"Yuh." Shammi agreed, swirling the eye to look at Lenore again. She seemed fixated on her dark hair.
"Yes, hello Crow-Lady!" Erishi chirped, beaming. "We've only been together for a little bit, Shammi and I. I am an Erishi, and we are very dangerous." Her face pulled into a mock-serious expression.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:45 pm
Crow nodded and took a slight step backward, though she couldn't help smiling.
"Well, that's...good to know. Me an' Len have been here a couple months - thank Erishi for letting you hold Shammi, Len."
Lenore gave Erishi a grave nod of thanks before returning her attention to the baby.
"I like lizards. And, I have to say, you're a pretty cool lizard, Shammi."
Noticing the child's fixated stare on her hair, Len toyed with the dulled razor feathers she had tied in to make them sound. They rang with quiet resonance, echoing faintly through the dead garden.
"You like my hair, Shammi? It's not half as pretty as yours, no- yours is all pretty and bright, like your mum's." she cooed, feeling a bit maternal despite herself.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:10 pm
Her hair was dark, and it was all one color! It was odd and neat. However, she could only get a happily burbled "Bwuh!" to form on her mouth. How displeasing. She reached for the hair, wanting to get a feel. "Nawpaw" She assured Lenore.
"Rawr." Erishi said, beaming. "Len is good." She said, once again in a sagely tone. "And so is Crow. It is good to meet you both." She reached down and scooped up a handfull of snow, packing into a ball with her bare fingers and smiled mischeviously at Crow, tossing it once or twice in the air.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:27 pm
Lenore nodded as Shammi spoke, lowering her head obligingly. Knowing she was most likely about to lose a portion of her hair and maybe a bit of scalp, she smiled at the baby indulgently.
"You're a cutie, Shammi. Go ahead - you'd probably figure out a way to get at it, anyway."
With a sincere feeling that she shouldn't make any sudden moves, Crow eyed the snowball, bending down to make one of her own.
"So," she said conversationally as she packed the snow into a misshapen and crumbly snowball, " have you met anyone else around here?"
Watching their guardians talk in mild interest, Lenore nudged Shammi conspiratorially.
"Betcha a dollar my mum gets the crud knocked out of her with snowballs," she whispered to the baby, grinning.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:33 pm
Shammi pulled the hair down, fingering it and pulling it close to her eyes before letting go. Hair was so interesting! She turned an eye to watch the ladies, agreeing with Len's comment. "Fwack!" She sounded clearly.
"I shoved snow down Liam's pants, and he did a funny dance." She added conversationally, beaming. "I won't try that, 'cause then you'd probably take off your pants like he did. It was funny!" And she gave a scarily innocent giggle at that.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:39 pm
Immensely grateful nothing had been ripped out, Lenore shifted Shammi so that she could see the show a bit better.
"Fwack," she said, nodding seriously.
Crow gave a snort of laughter, dropping her snowball. Picking it up and trying to reshape it, she tried to imagine the scene - Liam seemed pretty cool and collected most of the time. Snow down the pants seemed a deeply amusing (and only slightly cruel) way to get him to loosen up.
"I'm sorry I didn't meet you sooner - I'd have loved to see that," she said, abandoning her cubic snowball and collecting fresh snow for a new one. She was getting to like this girl - though she carefully buttoned up her long coat over her pants, just in case.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:45 pm
"He is a funny little fluffy." Erishi said, beaming. "He is very shiny under his shirt, and I approve."
"Fwack?" Shammi asked, watching Erishi before turning both eyes to Lenore's pretty hair. Eeeee! Hair.
"Fwack!" Erishi agreed, throwing the snowball at Crow gleefully.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:53 pm
"Fwa-ACK!"
Crow spluttered as the snowball hit her full on in the face, exploding in a shower of white. Tossing hers about three feet to the left of where Erishi stood, she wiped the powder out of her eyes in good natured surprise.
"Jeez, you've got a good arm. Didn't even see it coming," she said, brushing snow out of her hair and laughing.
At the mention of Liam, Lenore perked up instantly.
"Yeah, he's got metal parts like me!" she said with an unsual burst of enthusiasm, almost bouncing as she remembered. Her bouncing made the razor feathers ring a little louder, sounding like hollow-toned bells as their wearer fidgeted.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:27 pm
Erishi beamed. "I'm good at hurting things. You can get me back, though. It's only fair. A snow for a snow!"
"Plllrt?" Shammi blinked, twisting her eyes around to find the source of the noise. Her tail brushed one of Lenore's feathers ands he gave a little squeak. Was that the nose maker?
"Metal people are very fun." Erishi added, wiggling her metalic hand.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:28 pm
Folding back her wings just in case Shammi decided to play with them and endanger her eyeballs, Lenore made a clucking sound.
"No no, no touching. Too sharp."
After a moments impulsive consideration (and making sure Crow wasn't looking), Lenore plucked off one of her smaller razor feathers from an upper row and watched its edges dull and fade in fascination. Handing the now-harmless shiny to Shammi, she smiled seriously.
"There. Now you can play with it - it won't put an eye out now."
Taking care to make a round snowball, Crow nodded and went into a pitcher's stance. Tossing the ball and giving a laugh as it broke apart in midair, she gave a shrug.
"We'll just say it got you and call it even," she said mildly.
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:22 pm
Shammi beamed and accepted the feather, moving it this way and that to see it better. She babbled, waving it at Lenore happily. After studying it for another moment, she move it into her mouth to gum it.
"Tee hee!" Carefully packing a snowball, she threw it straight up into the air and moved under it, the ball smacking her right on the crown of the head. "There. Now we're even."
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