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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:19 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
He smiled at Kyl who was spelling words out to him from his own language and he chuckled. Maybe some words were a little advanced for Kyl, Like some three letter ones. Best to learn the alphabet. First.
For several hours he sounded out each letter to Kyl. Once the bucket was full of the letters, he would shake it and toss it out again. Then the alphabet was mastered. Hawkeye noticed a ball floating next to him and tossed it to Kyl. "Catch."
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:46 pm
Kyl
Kyl smiled when Hawkeye chuckled at him spelling his words. He wanted to explain what they meant of course but didn't have any examples like the man before him did. When he got back to his home he would be sure to bring examples to show the man so he knew what words went with what. The lesson one all the letters was entertaining for Kyl and he enjoyed learning. He enjoyed swimming to find the letters and bringing them back to the man like a giant game of fetch with a fish. Of course fish didn't have that long of an attention span and they only did it if they knew they were going to get food. He had just finished retrieving all the letters once more when Hawkeye reached into the water for something else. Kyl watched him as it was tossed to the mermaid with another word. He caught it with a bit of surprise not sure what he was supposed to do with it. "Eat?" he questioned looking over the thing more carefully. It didn't seem to be like the food he had experienced before, infact it looked more like the strawberry from earlier the one that had been in the water. "Toy." he stated tossing it back to Hawkeye.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 9:52 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
Hawkeye smiled when the toy was tossed back as he caught it. "Yes." There was progress. "Ra-eng." He pressed thumbs and index fingers to indicate a circle. "Ring." Then held a finger up. "Sta-e-ck. Stick.
It was time for shapes.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:26 am
Kyl
Kyl looked a bit relieved when Hawkeye expressed that he had been correct in identifying the ball as a toy. When Hawkeye motioned for something else, making a circle with his hands calling it a ring Kyl frowned. Then holding up a finger calling it a stick. He understood that what he was motioning was not the actual things so instead he dove beneath the water looking for the toys that looked vaguely like the motions Hawkeye had made. The ring he found easily enough but the stick was a bit more confusing for the mermaid. There wasn't really anything that resembled a finger, just one solitary finger. He frowned to himself rifling through the toys at the bottom of the tank. He found more rings and collected them. But the finger, the stick as Hawkeye called it elluded him for a time more. Finally he just grabbed a straight looking toy and moved back to the surface. "Ring, ring , ring." Kyl said presenting each ring individually. Then he held up the straight toy with a frowned. "Stick?" he questioned.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:11 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
"Yes." When Kyl's inquisitive look came about the stick. "Yes. Stick. Suddenly it hit him. He hadn't been swimming in a while, He used the toys just to get his team to remain sharp minded with details, rather they were in or out of the dive suit, in a chlorinated pool or sterilized Galaxy Ocean water.
With a coy smile. He slipped from the edge into the tank entirely and taking a deep breathe, he dove to the bottom, seeking out one of the toys. Surfacing later with one of the dive sticks in hand. He laughed heartily at Kyl's shocked expression.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:43 pm
Kyl
Kyl looked even more relieved than before when Hawkeye gave him an affirmative and then repeated it assuring the mermaid that he had indeed retrieved the right thing. He was waiting for more instruction when Hawkeye gave him a coy smiled and stepped more into the water. Then the man was fully in the water with him. He watched shocked and unsure what to do when the man dove beneath the water. Part of him wanted to follow to see what the man did but as soon as he had decided to follow the man Hawkeye surfaced again. He had one of the sticks in hand and Kyl blinked in surprise until the man was laughing. Kyl wasn't quite sure what he was laughing at but he smiled none the less happy to see the happiness on the man's face. "Hawkeye, get stick." he stated smiling usinng the words the man had already taught him.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:06 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
Hawkeye played with Kyl till the sun went down, only stopping for lunch, snacks and dinner. When was the last time he had this much fun? He couldn't remember. Kyl had progressed well with words. And talk was small and short but they could understand each other a little better than earlier that morning. Now it was time for rest.
And he needed to still do his work in analyzing the recordings. If the mermaid was asleep in the morning, he'll be taking a majority of the percentage to his team. He had been granted vacation for the next seven weeks and the Hydro Float was not going to be moving any time soon, the black clouds still hung overhead and the constant change of the currents hadn't halted. They never knew when the next Mega Super Water Hurricane would hit or how long before the sky would clear that gave the signal to continue to move about.
"Kyl, its bed time." He lifted himself up onto the ledge, cloths sucking and sticking to his body, the stars and galaxies clung to his skin and hair and fabric. Revealing the well toned body beneath that rippled with muscles.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:08 am
Kyl
Kyl had been more than happy to play with Hawkeye only stopping for more food which he was eager to try. It seemed Hawkeye's types of food differed quite a bit from what he had at home. He learned many more words including colors which he had picked up with relative ease seeing as some of the words were very close to Kyl's own. Being able to communicate more throughly than broken pieces of sentences pleased the mermaid. Although they were still using small words to communicate he was sure they would be able to pick up more from there and that it meant his grandmother had been far more right about these creatures than his parents.
When Hawkeye called time for bed the mermaid gave a whining noise. "Noooooo." followed the noise. He didn't want Hawkeye to leave which he assumed the man had to since Kyl had no idea where the man was to sleep. To think of it he wasn't entirely sure where he was to sleep. He was distracted from more whining when Hawkeye pulled himself from the water and his clothing sucked to his skin giving the mermaid time to understand that Hawkeye was wearing something instead of the clothes being part of the creature. He swam forward to Hawkeye and plucked at the wet fabric curiosity evident. He found the end of Hawkeye's shirt and pulled it up revealing the man's chest. It looked like his without the scales.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:09 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
He had expected the child like cry about going to bed and that the mermaid would be lost at the separation between them. How ever when the whining began, he thought it would continue for a period of time till he had settled down.
Now?
Now....
Now.
He wasn't sure to be flustered or embarrassed at the actions of Kyl who was plucking at the fabric clinging to his skin. Then it felt like the world stopped when his shirt was pulled up. Mortification actually. Hawkeye brought himself back down to the logic side.
This was education for Kyl. However, a little too fast to say the least. Humans to Kyle were strange beings whose characteristics where the same except for the legs, scales and gills. To Hawkeye, Kyl was just as strange to him. However he wanted to teach Kyl and much he wanted Kyl to teach him.
He took one of Kyl's hands with a smile and examined it. Here was a place to start. It was one thing at a time. And speaking of time. It was numbers to be learned tomorrow so he could teach him to tell time of day.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:17 am
Kyl
Kyl was oblivios to Hawkeye's reaction to having the mermaid pluck at then lift the man's shirt. He was confused by the lack of scales that he saw on Hawkeye's skin but figured it to be a thing about his spieces. A difference between the two of them that maybe had to do with the difference of their lower appendages. He was rubbing the wet fabric of the man shirt between his fingers trying to get a feel for it and understand it's purpose when his other hand was taken by Hawkeye. Green eyes looked up to the man who was suddenly exploring his hand like he had been his shirt.
It wasn't like their hands were all that different. They still looked quite the same though Kyl had a significant bit more of webbing between his fingers designed to help with swimming under water. Kyl turned his attention more to the human exploring his hand the shirt forgotten for the moment. Maybe there were more differences than he thought as he took more note of their hands. The webbing between Kyl's fingers was more translucent that the bit in Hawkeye's hands, his more closely matched how the flippers on his tail. But the most curious difference to Kyl was the heat that Hawkeye's hands seemed to give off. It wasn't that the mermaid was freezing cold in temperature but his skin and blood ran at a lower temperature passed down the evolutionary line to make it easier to live in the deep waters of the ocean. The warmth of Hawkeye's hand was so fascinating to the mermaid that he merely paused to experience it. He wanted to express what he felt after a few moments but realized that he didn't have a word for it that he knew of in Hawkeye's language. He frowned trying to think of something before the colors they had been working with much earlier could be described as such a thing."Orange, red, yellow." he spoke, he knew some other colors at least shades of the color seemed more warm but others were cooler and he didn't want more confusion in what he was saying.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:20 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
Something seemed to draw Kyl to Hawkeye's hand as he began to describe colors. Thinking it might be the color of the skin in certain areas where the color was more prominent. He let Kyl continue to examine his hand for a while. Eventually he pulled away and stood.
"Kyl. I sleep. You sleep too." He said with sincerity. "Its bed time." Then thinking how he could appease Kyl. "Please. We play more. Next day."
Sure that Kyl understood, he silently walked down the steps and called over his shoulder with a smile just before the doorway. "Goodnight. Kyl."
He walked down the hall to take a shower and pulled the chair up to his computer in his office, not before turning on the monitor display that showed the tank room, the security cameras a part of the wall. Making sure that Kyl had settled down first, he put on his headphones and began the first analyzing of the sixth day out.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:37 pm
Kyl
Kyl blinked as Hawkeye pulled away from him but then whined again as the man stood. It appeared as if the man was going to leave him again, only confirmed when Hawkeye said that they needed sleep and that it was bed time. He frowned even when the man promised that they would play the next day. "Night, night." Kyl bid as he watched Hawkeye descended down the outside of the tank his shoulders slumping as he moved back into the water fully. He swam listlessly around the tank for almost an hour unsure what he was supposed to do. He was realizing he was tired now that he had been left on his own but there was no where really for him to curl up in the water besides the floor. Eventually he settled down there with a sigh. It took him a long time to go to sleep the cold metal of the floor unfamiliar to him, but slowly exhaustion overwhelmed him and he fell asleep. His sleep was fitful but nothing more than that. It was when he woke that he grew a bit concerned. His wound had begun to heal but his scales had seemed to lessen in color. Something he had never seen happen to himself, only time he had seen it was when he had seen others of his kind get very sick and die. It freaked him out a bit, but he didn't feel sick so it only made him more confused.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:58 pm
Hawkeye Shiki
He felt even better than the day before. After being surrounded in softness for a solid seven hours, he had risen and left the house with the majority of the recordings and left specific instructions for his team to work in teams of two or three and compare notes and inferences as well as independent study for five hours.
His team was a hand picked team and they got the job done despite the chaos the ensues when he is not around. They'd hop on it with out delay but groan when it came to the random dive tests. He chuckled. It was all for their sake whenever they get the chance to be promoted to his rank and would have to put together a team of their own.
Hawkeye returned home and went to see if Kyl was up and he had hot biscuits with butter and jam for breakfast on a tray in his hands.
"Good morning, Kyl." He greeted.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:16 pm
Kyl
Kyl was swimming around the tank again listlessly. He didn't have anywhere to go and all he could do was swim in circles. There was nothing to entertain him and he had checked the ledge there was nothing there. They had cleaned the toys well and Hawkeye had taken them. He was wondering where the man was as he was bored and Hawkeye had promised him that they would play more. He wasn't paying attention to the outside of the tank and therefore was surprised when he finally heard Hawkeye. He didn't even bother to look for the man before shooting up to the surface of the water and to the ledge. "Hawkeye." Kyl whined at the man not able to convey his worry to the man at least not in a way the man would understand. "Blue to white." he tried lifting his tail trying to convey how his scales were a lighter color. Of course they weren't whiter in the least but they had seemed to lessen in color.
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LotusCurtiss Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:54 am
Hawkeye Shiki
Hawkeye smiled at Kyl's greeting and showing him something with colors again. He could only make out it was the effect of Kyl's scales shifting color because of the lighting making them glisten between blue and white. "Yes."
He sat on the ledge with the tray in his lap and opened up a hot biscuit and spread some butter and fruit jam and a little honey on it. Giving it to Kyl then made one for himself. "Eat. Breakfast." Naming the first meal of the day.
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