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 Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:42 pm
"Ruli?" Baniru laughed a little, tickling up to his neck, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were my child. That's right, little Ruli!"
Obviously something had gone wrong. Horribly wrong.
"Now let's just head off into the villiage with a hop skip and a jump! Just over that dune."
The confusion in Ruli had done more than made her mix up her own child.
Baniru hadn't taken any Ibuprofen in awhile.
Not to mention that they weren't in the desert?
Karma fidgeted, turning into a crying, maddened demon that he was. Or could be. He pounded furiously at air with his pudgy fists, but to no avail.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:57 pm
Ruli's eyes grew wide.
"Wha-?"
Dun? It sounded like something tasty.
But why would they go over something tasty?
Ruli thought that maybe he would just eat it.
But where were they going?
"Wher?"
Hesistantly, Aura crept back to the child.
She put a cold hand on his chubby back, saying softly (which was actually a mix between a low hoarse grumble and a shiver) "Kid, hey. Kid. I need to getcha outta her, kid."
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:38 pm
Baniru literally kidnapped the child and walked out the door, amidst the heavy stares and awkward glances she had been recieving. She couldn't see them anymore. They didn't matter.
"Your tail sure is long for a child your age," the woman spoke fondly, tickling at his neck.
"You sure are developed for a toddler."
Karma, on the other hand, decided that now was the time to scream at the top of his lungs as loud as he could.
"MAHHHHHHHHHHHH"
And so it proceeded that he tried to overrule Astrum's voice with his own.
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:58 am
Ruli craned his tiny head, looking at the door.
"Aura," he crooned at the portal.
He looked at her, swirling eyes fixed upon her glazed gaze. "Wha?"
Going?
Bye?
Aura thought this would be a good time to push open the window.
She didn't take into account that the boy was already halfway through the opening. You see, she had never had a strong sence of common sence, and never took into account the basic laws of gravity.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:15 pm
"Whoop!" the boy giggled, slipping outward into the afternoon air.
Baniru, on the other hand, stopped outside the motel.
"Aura?" She questioned, "Who's an Aura? Maybe you're older than I thought, if you can speak."
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:21 pm
Aura panicked as the boy slid onto nothing.
She proppeled herself off the rug, arms outstreched, trying to reach that tiny, beautiful toddler who didn't deserve the hard asphault of death.
Unfortunatly, by the time her arms had wrapped around his chubby body, they were both outside of the hotel - past the point of no return.
Ruli smiled, and lifted one psychedelic arm to the woman flailing outside of the second floor window.
"Aura," he designated, as the strange boy and the insane woman came in contact.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:31 pm
"Ah?" the woman turned her head to gaze at the spectacle that people would pull off only in the circus. And even then with a safety net.
"She's Aura? Well that sure is pretty damn funny kid, she sounds like that woman I met in the desert who almost got me shot."
She sighed.
"Come on now, let's go-"
But before Baniru could take any step further, Karma let out a loud shriek of:
"MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:40 pm
Ruli's pudgy hands flew to his hearing-holes, blocking out that hellish scream.
It was like the one before, but with a different ring. A different tone, one that Ruli understood more, in some strange way.
He knew that tone - knew it, just as he knew he was awake, just as he knew he was alive by the solitary thud of his heartbeat. He knew.
Aura knew it too, but in a different way.
Plus, at the moment, she didn't really care. She was too busy realized that her move - while effectively protecting the child - was probably going to kill her.
The ground decided to rush up quicker, and she let out a screaming yell of her own, cursing it for it's impatience in aiding and abetting her death.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:33 pm
"HOLY s**t!" Baniru screamed, before dropping Ruli and taking off for the falling woman with her baby.
In the chaos of all the screaming, running, and adrenaline flooding, her mind shocked itself into silence with what it had just thought, no longer confused by a toddler's mind games that he never played.
Her baby.
Her Karma.
He was all her's, all her own, and she loved him every bit as much.
Her heart fluttered in her throat as the woman dove to catch them- a futile attempt, but she had to do something.
Karma was screaming his little heart out for his mom.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:38 pm
Aura smiled sadly at the ground, suspended in slow motion.
This is it, then.
I'm going to die.
I wonder if I will ever know it?
Ruli fell to the ground with a bump and a thump. Asphault sucked at his skin, drying it out, he pushed himself to wobbling, kneeless legs, and toddled to the raised sidewalk to sit on - completely unaware that a woman had ever been holding him.
Sidewalk comfy, he thought, strangly amused.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:51 pm
And yet, instead of a resounding SPLAT and the scattering of fluid and body parts, instead Baniru had tackled them from the side.
So they both tumbled into the alleyway wall.
It was better than landing as a meatwaffle, at any rate.
"Ung.." the woman hissed out in a hurt tone, crumpled around the two like some deflated paper bag, "Karma...?"
Karma was unharmed, save for a little knick on his head. He stared at the sphinx-woman before tears gummed up his eyes and came flooding out to childish wails, accompanied by clutching arms onto his mother's shirt.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:57 pm
The very first thing that registered was the pain, the fiendist pain of bruises and cuts.
And she opened her eyes to the blinding sunlight, and realized that death had lost.
The boy.
She turned her throbbing neck in both directions, finding the woman and the boy clutching eachother - both seemingly unhurt.
"Yohay?" She blubbed out - her jaw swelling numbly against her words.
Ruli was playing with a pebble. It captivated him, how the rock was neither smooth nor defined - the confusion ebbing through him like happiness and sorrow and fear - and yet, none of them.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:06 pm
"Shh, shh, it's okay baby, it's okay.." she called out softly, unsuprised that Karma had taken a liking to falling from high places and then nearly being rescued.
Her accusing eyes turned to glare at Aura.
"I thought I knew you better than this, friend." she growled out, before standing up. With out controlling the urge, she let her hand fly loose and slap the other woman across the face.
"I hope... Karma gets you back for what happened today!" she said in anger, not really meaning the words.
And with that, Baniru took her sobbing toddler and limped away, back to her hotel home.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:12 pm
She blinked, face stinging.
What the ******** just happened?
Ruli followed the pebble, watching it's epic quest to the drain.
It rolled, blown by dust in the wind, stopping at Aura's feet.
She stood, creaking, groaning, warily and wearily. "Let's go, Ru."
But before she could do more than lift the giggling child off the ground, two sirens envelopped them and they were both rushed back to the hospital ward, Aura's screams of supposed insanity not keeping them company.
/end
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:58 pm
Clang!
Aura could almost hear the chains and shackles reattach themselves to her enslaven feet. She could almost see the bars on the doors as her cell - meager and uninviting and white.
The Aekea Hospital was taking charge for her while the one in Gambino was rebuilt.
Just moving from prison to prison, really.
She sat, sighing, on an aged, hard matress that felt like a block of moldy cheese. The very touch of it had made her shudder, but now she supposed she was getting used to it - after all, what choice do we have, really?
She looked to the boy, huddled under some papery sheets - fast asleep.
Remembering...
"She ran away?" A doctor with a gruff, heaving voice gasped out overhead as he fitted a blindfold over her eyes.
"Yes, sir. Ran from our bus during trasport." This voice was feminine - barely.
"She must be kept with us, then. A danger to society..." the burly man grumbled, obviously in pain.
Good, she thought to herself.
He deserved those punches, those kicks - they were bringing her back, back to Hell...
"And what about her...creature, doctor?"
A shock of fear.
Ruli!
They cannot take you from me!
She squirmed in her straps, shaking her free head viciously, painfully, exerting all her strength...
A gutteral groan. "Let her keep it."
Gratititude, relaxation.
And then, as that rush of aderenaline left her, she fell into a doze...
She moved the heels of her hands to her stinging, watery eyes, rubbing the tears away.
The little body squirmed, underneath the raspy, scratchy blankets. His head poked out, eyes wide shut - dreaming of dreams she would never understand, and never wanted to.
She reached out one salty hand, placing it on the tiny ribcage - and it did not stir, did not jump, the deep breathing of sleep it's only movement.
Thu-thump.
A tiny heartbeat, strong, pure - but wait.
Thu-thu-thu-thump.
That wasn't normal.
Thu-thu-thump.
Aura moved her hand away quickly, her throat closing up with bile.
Flashes of schooling came back to her - her pediatric friend mentioning a terrible symptom - an irregular heartbeat.
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